Sterba R F
Int J Psychoanal. 1990;71 ( Pt 1):107-11.
With this addition to the slender literature of self-revelations by psychoanalysts, the author also makes what may be his final contribution to psychoanalysis. An episode of hypomania during a visit to his birthplace, Vienna, triggered a dream whose elucidation allowed him to recover a primal scene and complete a self-analysis begun 65 years earlier. Shortly thereafter, a stroke left him hemiplegic and forced the author to confront the final stage of a productive life. After describing a range of adaptations to age and failing health, he explores the role hypomania played in his reconciling with the inevitability of impending death. Analysis of the contending forces also deepens our understanding of the transformations the creative process undergoes in advanced age, a topic the author leaves for younger hands to perfect.
随着这部作品被添加入精神分析学家自我揭示的稀少文献之中，作者或许也做出了他对精神分析的最后贡献。一次轻躁狂发作发生在他访问出生地维也纳期间，引发了一个梦，对这个梦的阐释使他找回了一个原初场景，并完成了65年前就已开始的自我分析。此后不久，一次中风使他半身不遂，迫使作者直面富有创造力的一生的最后阶段。在描述了一系列应对衰老和健康衰退的调适之后，他探究了轻躁狂在他与即将到来的死亡的必然性达成和解过程中所起的作用。对各种相互冲突力量的分析也加深了我们对创造性过程在老年所经历的转变的理解，作者将这个主题留给更年轻的人去完善。
