Freud in his time and ours / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by Catherine Porter.
2016
BF109.F74 R6813 2016eb
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Freud in his time and ours / Élisabeth Roudinesco ; translated by Catherine Porter.
Uniform Title
Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre. English
ISBN
9780674974524 (electronic book)
0674974522 (electronic book)
9780674659568
0674659562
0674974522 (electronic book)
9780674659568
0674659562
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 580 pages)
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BF109.F74 R6813 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
150.19/52092 B
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 siecle 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. Provided by publisher.
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"First published as Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le notre"--Title page verso.
Translated from the French.
Translated from the French.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Porter, Catherine, 1941- translator.
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Table of Contents
Part One. The life
Beginnings
Loves, tempests, ambitions
The invention of psychoanalysis
Part Two. The conquest
The Belle Époque
Disciples and dissidents
The discovery of America
The war of nations
Part Three. At home
Dark enlightenment
Families, dogs, objects
The art of the couch
Among women
Part Four. The final years
Between fetish medicine and religion
Facing Hitler
Death at work.
Beginnings
Loves, tempests, ambitions
The invention of psychoanalysis
Part Two. The conquest
The Belle Époque
Disciples and dissidents
The discovery of America
The war of nations
Part Three. At home
Dark enlightenment
Families, dogs, objects
The art of the couch
Among women
Part Four. The final years
Between fetish medicine and religion
Facing Hitler
Death at work.