Nieudana analiza Zygmunta Freuda: próba z historiografii niepokornej

Sigmund Freud’s Failed Analysis: An Attempt at Rebellious Historiography This article offers a critical reflection on the longue durée of the seduction theory in psychoanalysis. Based on letters of Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud – a section recently opened in the archives of the Library of Congress in Washington – the author reconstructs key moments in the princess’s analysis and highlights the reciprocal dimension of the therapeutic process in this case. The history of the Bonaparte family and Freud’s interpretation of their relationships are examined in the light of psychoanalysis’ problematic attitude towards incest and the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. Building on methodological guidelines for historians of psychoanalysis formulated by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Murray Schwartz, the author proposes a rethinking of the foundational errors of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which resurfaced in the analysis of Bonaparte and Freud, and later in discussions around the concept of trauma in 1932. Keywords: Marie Bonaparte, Sigmund Freud, seduction theory, trauma, incest