ABSTRACT

Freud established himself—or disestablished himself—as a family therapist in that unique act of wild analysis when he took his own daughter into an impossible and incestuous treatment. That treatment and its aftermath is the focus of my concern, which I shall explore, as my subtitle indicates, in a series of reflections. I am using the word reflections in varying ways: it may mean considerations or mirrorings. The mirrorings, as we shall see, can embrace a variety of doublings, even in a scriptive mode.