Peter T. Hoffer, PhD

Professor of German
PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania, 1975

Phone: 215-596-8905
Email: p.hoffer@usp.edu

Research Interests
Modern German literature, history and culture; Intellectual history; History of psychiatry/psychoanalysis; Translation

Recent Publications
Monograph
Klaus Mann (Twayne's World Authors Series #435, Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1978)

Translations
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sàndor Ferenczi, vols. I, II, III (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1996, 2000).

(with A. Hoffer) A Phylogenetic Fantasy: Overview of the Transference Neuroses (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987).

Articles
(2005) Reflections on cathexis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 74: 1127-1135

(2003) The wise baby meets the enfant terrible: The evolution of Ferenczi's views on development. Psychoanalytic Psychology 20, No. 1. 18-29.

Hoffer P., Hoffer, A. (1999) Ferenczi's fatal illness in historical context. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 47, No. 4. 1257-1268.

(1994) Stefan Zweig, Freud, and the literary transference. Literature and Psychology 40,  nos. 1 & 2. 10-23.