| Description |
xx, 810 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Norton, 1988. With a new foreword. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 741-779) and index. |
| Contents |
Foundations : 1856-1905 -- 1. A greed for knowledge -- Food for memories -- The lure of research -- Freud in love -- 2. The theory in the making -- A necessary friend, and enemy -- Hysterics, projects, and embarrassments -- Self-analysis -- 3. Psychoanalysis -- The secret of dreams -- A psychology for psychologists -- From Rome to Vienna : a progress -- A map for sexuality. |
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Elaborations : 1902-1915 -- 4. Sketch of an embattled founder -- At fifty -- Pleasures of the senses -- The Wednesday psychological society -- The foreigners -- 5. Psychoanalytic politics -- Jung : the crown prince -- American interlude -- Vienna versus Zurich -- Jung : the enemy -- 6. Therapy and technique -- A problematic debut -- Two classic lessons -- In his own cause : Leonardo, Schreber, Fliess -- In his own cause : the politics of the wolf man -- A handbook for technicians -- 7. Applications and implications -- Matters of taste -- Foundations of society -- Mapping the mind -- The end of Europe. |
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Revisions : 1915-1939 -- 8. Aggressions -- Comprehensive and momentous things -- Uneasy peace -- Death : experience and theory -- Eros, ego, and their enemies -- 9. Death against life -- Intimations of mortality -- Anna -- The price of popularity -- Vitality : the Berlin spirit -- 10. Flickering lights on dark continents -- Rank and the consequences -- Doctors' dilemmas -- Woman, the dark continent -- 11. Human nature at work -- Against illusions -- Civilization : the human predicament -- The ugly Americans -- Trophies and obituaries -- 12. To die in freedom -- The politics of disaster -- Defiance as identity -- Finis Austriae -- Death of a stoic. |
| Summary |
Presents a biography of nineteenth-century Austrian physician Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, discussing his personal life and family, education, career, and professional struggles. |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. (OCoLC)fst00034252
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Freud, Sigmund,.
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Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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Psychoanalysis -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis. (OCoLC)fst01081235
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Psychoanalysts. (OCoLC)fst01081287
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Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901
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Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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Psychoanalysis -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0393328619 (paperback) |
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9780393328615 |
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