Best biography sigmund freud
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
By page – less than a quarter of the way into the main text – Freud is already in his mid-forties, but there's only so much that can be fitted into a one-volume work and Gay's extensive treatment of the second half of his subject's life reflects the increasingly broad nature of Freud's output and activities once he had established himself, as well as his significance as a public figure and even celebrity. However, Gay's account of Freud's early years is engaging and informative: so many threads and connections in twentieth-century culture have some personal, familial or intellectual link back to the apartment at Berggasse 19, but it is important not to overlook the nineteenth-century milieu from which Fre
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'This is a brilliant book that combines psychoanalytic thinking and intellectual history to demonstrate that Freud remains central to current debates not only in psychoanalysis, but also in cultural theory, philosophy and gender studies. With his expertise in psychoanalytic theory, Joel Whitebook elucidates the development of Freud’s thinking and presents a radically new way of reading him. He appropriates insights from feminism, pre-Oedipal theory, and clinical experience with non-neurotic patients to transform our picture of the founder of the field. When one focuses on early development, the maternal presence and the repudiation of femininity, Freud no longer appears as another dead white male, but as a vital thinker whose ideas have important consequences for the contemporary world.' Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, Director of the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center’s Parent-Infant Program, and member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and of the Société Psychan
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The best books on Sigmund Freud
Before we go into your fem book choices, could you say a little bit about your personal involvement with Freud? I know you’ve been involved in a number of ways with Freud and Freudian projects.
I guess inom first directly engaged with Freud as a reader. That’s an intimate relationship, isn’t it? I studied literature at university, back in the sixties and inevitably Freud came up. I read more when I was writing my PhD—about femininity. Then, bygd sheer coincidence, I went to work at a social research firm in New York. This was back in the early 70s. The woman who had brought me in and was one of the partners of the firm was the daughter of a leading psychoanalyst. So inom started to learn about psychoanalysis in a different way bygd meeting analysts, and inom grew a little more familiar with a way of thinking. I was a writer in residence for this firm and the book I wrote based on their research was then published bygd a psychoanalytic press who asked me if inom w