William I. Grossman’s Papers

Click Here to Read:  Table of Contents of William Grossman’s papers on this website.

Click Here to Read: Introduction: William I. Grossman, M.D. By Arnold Wilson, Ph.D.

Click Here to Read:  Three Commentaries on Gender in Freud’s Thought: A Prologue to the Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexuality William I. Grossman, M.D & Donald M. Kaplan, Ph.D.

Click Here to Read: Comments on the Concept of the “Analyzing Instrument” by William Grossman.

Click Here Read:  Anthropomorphism—Motive, Meaning, and Causality in Psychoanalytic Theory by William I. Grossman, M.D. and Bennett Simon, M.D.

Click Here to Read:  Grossman, W.I. (2000).  Review of Freud and his Aphasia Book  By Valerie Greenberg.  International Journal Psycho-Analysis 81: 603-606. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press. 1997. 207 pp.

Click Here To Read:  A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses By Sigmund Freud, edited by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis; translated by Axel Hoffer and Peter T. Hoffer. Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard Univ. Press, 1987, xvii + 113 pp., $17.50.

 Click Here to Read: Before the Pleasure Principle: Translation and its Vicissitudes by William I. Grossman, M.D. Originally appeared in 1986 J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 34:488-489 – used by permission. 

Click Here to Read:  Reconsidering Childhood Genital Sensations and the Development of Femininity by William I. Grossman, M.D.
Third Annual Freud Lecture, N.J. Psychoanalytic Society, 6 May 99; Hall Memorial Lecture, Emory Univ. School of Medicine, 3 April 98.

Click Here to Read:  Discussions of “Contemporary Perspectives on Self:  oward an Integration” by William I. Grossman, M.D. Originally appeared in (1991)  Psychoanal. Dial., 1:149-172.

Click Here to Read: Freud and Horney: A Study of Psychoanalytic Models via the Analysis of a Controversy[1] by William I. Grossman.

Click Here to Read:  Freud Ou Reich? Psychoanalyse Et Illusion By Bèla Grunberger and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel.  Poitiers, France:  Claude Tchou, 1976, 245 pp., 49f.  Review by William I. Grossman, M.D.

Click Here to Read:  Knightmare in Armor: Reflections on Wilhelm Reich’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis by William I. Grossman  Reprinted from Psychiatry Vol. 39, No. 4, November 1976.

Click Here to Read:  Hartmann and the Integration of Different Ways of Thinking by William I. Grossman, MD.

Click Here to Read:  Hierarchies, Boundaries and Representation in a Freudian Model of Mental Organization by William I. Grossman, M.D.

Click Here to Read:  Reflections on the Relationships of Introspection and Psycho-Analysis by William I. Grossman Originally published in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 48:16-31 (1967). Used by permission.

Click Here to Read: Knightmare in Armor: Reflections on Wilhelm Reich’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis Wiby lliam I. Grossman   Reprinted from Psychiatry, Vol. 39, No. 4, November 1976. Used by permission of the author.

Click Here to Read:  Notes on Masochism: A Discussion of the History and Development of a Psychoanalytic Concept by William I. Grossman, M.D.
 Originally appeared in 1986 Psychoanal. Q., 55:379-413 – used by permission.

Click Here to Read: Pain, Aggression, Fantasy, and Concepts of   Sadomasochism by William I. Grossman, M.D. Originally appeared in 1991 Psychoanal. Q., 60:22-51 – used by permission.

Click Here to Read: Some Perspectives on Relationships of Theory and Technique  by William I. Grossman, M.D.

Click Here to Read: Psychological Vicissitudes Of Theory In Clinical Work by
William I. Grossman. Originally appeared in 1995 Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 76:885-899 – used by permission.

 Click Here to Read:  Some Sources for a Slip in a Translation by Freud
William I. Grossman, M.D. Originally appeared in 1988 J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 36:729-738 – used by permission.

Narcissistic Perfection vs. Object Love “Up in the Air”

Published originally in the PANY Bulletin, Fall, 2010

Several years ago, I wrote about the film, A Beautiful Mind, based upon the life of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who suffered from a lifelong psychotic illness. My focus was on the conflict between narcissism and object love. In the end, object love won the day, but both narcissism and object love were gratified as Nash devoted his Nobel acceptance speech to his love for his wife.
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