| Description |
xiii, 587 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 568-573. |
| Contents |
Background -- Freud's cardiac episode: the battle against nicotine addiction -- The friendship with Fliess: early phase -- Self-analysis -- Dreams and death -- Death of a friendship -- "The revenants": the acropolis episode -- Immortality -- Disciples and friends--revival of old conflicts -- The theme of death elaborated in three works -- World War I -- Beyond the pleasure principle: the death instinct and the repetition compulsion -- 1923--the cancer surgery -- Death as a metapsychological problem -- Adjustment to pain and illness -- Freud enters the biblical age -- The future without illusions -- Freud becomes my patient -- Civilization and its discontents -- The vigil for new lesions--the struggle with the prosthesis -- The scientific Weltanschauung -- Hitler Germany and Austrian fascism -- Moses and monotheism -- Freud's eightieth birthday -- Cancer strikes again -- The Nazi invasion, exodus -- The last chapter. |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Biography.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| ISBN |
0823620255 |
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