Freud : In His Time and Ours / Élisabeth Roudinesco.
2017
BF109.F74 R6813 2016eb
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Freud : In His Time and Ours / Élisabeth Roudinesco.
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Translated by Catherine Porter
ISBN
9780674974524
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (530 p.) : 1 chart
Item Number
10.4159/9780674974524 doi
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BF109.F74 R6813 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
150.19/52092
Summary
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century-a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freud's life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu of fin de siècle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg Empire-an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig, and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire. Yet this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the analytically-minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his intellectual complexity-the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved-Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction
Part One. The Life
Part Two. The Conquest
Part Three. At Home
Part Four. The Final Years
Notes
Works Cited
Bibliography: Freud in French
Freud's Patients
Family Tree
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Translator's Note
Introduction
Part One. The Life
Part Two. The Conquest
Part Three. At Home
Part Four. The Final Years
Notes
Works Cited
Bibliography: Freud in French
Freud's Patients
Family Tree
Acknowledgments
Index