Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
A national bestseller "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune
Freud: A Life for Our Time
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
A national bestseller "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072347
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
A national bestseller "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune
Freud
Author: Élisabeth Roudinesco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674659562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Élisabeth Roudinesco’s bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century—a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674659562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Élisabeth Roudinesco’s bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century—a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.
Freud
Author: Joel Whitebook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108210082
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108210082
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.
Becoming Freud
Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300158661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A long-time editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud offers a fresh look at the father of psychoanalysis.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300158661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A long-time editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud offers a fresh look at the father of psychoanalysis.
The Death of Sigmund Freud
Author: Mark Edmundson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582345376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582345376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.
In the Freud Archives
Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017027X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives--founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler--whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold. Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017027X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives--founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler--whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold. Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.
Freud
Author: Frederick Crews
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627797181
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers. A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627797181
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers. A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.
Sigmund Freud
Author: The History Hour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781082823732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Was Sigmund Freud a sexual deviant? The book you are about to read should enlighten you to many things that you never knew about Sigmund Freud. The real issues in Freud's life and how bad it was for others. How unfair it was to all others that had the unfortunate chance to cross paths with him. Inside you'll read about Golden Sigi Freud's Education Cocaine - A Great Addiction Hysteria & Hypnosis Freud & Family Anna, O. After Freud's Death And much more! The book will introduce you to some of his unorthodox methods that you will be able to tell immediately cannot be real. It will allow you to see the rise and fall of Sigmund Freud and make you wonder what wires had gotten so crossed and so frayed in his brain to make him into the insane person he became to do everything he had done.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781082823732
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Was Sigmund Freud a sexual deviant? The book you are about to read should enlighten you to many things that you never knew about Sigmund Freud. The real issues in Freud's life and how bad it was for others. How unfair it was to all others that had the unfortunate chance to cross paths with him. Inside you'll read about Golden Sigi Freud's Education Cocaine - A Great Addiction Hysteria & Hypnosis Freud & Family Anna, O. After Freud's Death And much more! The book will introduce you to some of his unorthodox methods that you will be able to tell immediately cannot be real. It will allow you to see the rise and fall of Sigmund Freud and make you wonder what wires had gotten so crossed and so frayed in his brain to make him into the insane person he became to do everything he had done.
Sigmund Freud
Author: Helen W. Puner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000679047
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance, prejudice and refusal that so often attend major breakthroughs and innovations. Helen Puner's biography is far more than a professional appreciation. It is the story of a complex, by no means flawless individual, whose personal characteristics helped sow the seeds of controversy as well as ultimately establish a new field. Upon its initial appearance, the Herald Tribune identified the book as "the first authoritative and profoundly perceptive biography of the man who more than any other has shaped the thinking of the Western World." It was summarized as a "brilliant performance, done without fear."Puner did precisely what irritated Freud most: probe the sources, social no less than personal, religious no less than scientific, that made Freud such a towering figure. Dorothy Canfield caught the spirit of this work when she noted that in this book, we see Freud "as we never saw him before, as most of us never knew he was, a rigidly virtuous, deeply troubled, upright, dutiful Jewish son, husband and father. We see him tracing the significance of clues he hit upon in the practice of medicine, and then fit these clues into the bewildering mastery of human behavior."In his Foreword, Erich Fromm indicates that Puner looks at Freud with genuine admiration, but without idolatry. "She understands his own psychological problems and has a full appreciation of the pseudo-religious nature of the movement which he created." And the late Ernest Becker, in The Denial of Death, seconded this estimate by calling the Helen Walker Puner effort "a brilliant critical biography." This new edition contains a new introduction by Paul Roazen; with this, and the appreciation of the author by her husband, Samuel Puner, we can better locate the author of the book as well as the famous object of her analysis.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000679047
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance, prejudice and refusal that so often attend major breakthroughs and innovations. Helen Puner's biography is far more than a professional appreciation. It is the story of a complex, by no means flawless individual, whose personal characteristics helped sow the seeds of controversy as well as ultimately establish a new field. Upon its initial appearance, the Herald Tribune identified the book as "the first authoritative and profoundly perceptive biography of the man who more than any other has shaped the thinking of the Western World." It was summarized as a "brilliant performance, done without fear."Puner did precisely what irritated Freud most: probe the sources, social no less than personal, religious no less than scientific, that made Freud such a towering figure. Dorothy Canfield caught the spirit of this work when she noted that in this book, we see Freud "as we never saw him before, as most of us never knew he was, a rigidly virtuous, deeply troubled, upright, dutiful Jewish son, husband and father. We see him tracing the significance of clues he hit upon in the practice of medicine, and then fit these clues into the bewildering mastery of human behavior."In his Foreword, Erich Fromm indicates that Puner looks at Freud with genuine admiration, but without idolatry. "She understands his own psychological problems and has a full appreciation of the pseudo-religious nature of the movement which he created." And the late Ernest Becker, in The Denial of Death, seconded this estimate by calling the Helen Walker Puner effort "a brilliant critical biography." This new edition contains a new introduction by Paul Roazen; with this, and the appreciation of the author by her husband, Samuel Puner, we can better locate the author of the book as well as the famous object of her analysis.
Freud
Author: Louis Breger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Chronicles the life of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, discussing how he obscured the truth about his own life to create a heroic image of himself.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Chronicles the life of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, discussing how he obscured the truth about his own life to create a heroic image of himself.