Freud’s Papers on Technique is usually treated as an assemblage of papers featuring a few dated rules of conduct that are either useful in some way, or merely customary, or bullying, arbitrary and presumptuous. Lawrence Friedman reveals Papers on Technique to be nothing of the sort. Freud’s book, he..
Old and Dirty Gods offers the first detailed exploration of the attitudes toward religion among Freud’s Vienna circle, revealing that their views were more complex than previously assumed, and, as well, proposes that antisemitism is the "total context" for the development of psychoanalysis...
Old and Dirty Gods offers the first detailed exploration of the attitudes toward religion among Freud’s Vienna circle, revealing that their views were more complex than previously assumed, and, as well, proposes that antisemitism is the "total context" for the development of psychoanalysis...
Originally published in 1920, this book was intended as a brief outline of psychoanalysis for those interested in the subject, but without the time to study the work of Freud and his followers first hand...
First published in 1969, this was a new assessment of Freud’s most creative years and the formative period in psychoanalysis and was the first book to attempt a systematic presentation of Freud’s early ideas, relating them to his later work and to contemporary psychoanalysis. During the years 1888-1..
In this title, originally published in 1993, Barratt examines the role of psychoanalysis in what he sees as the crisis of modernism, shows why the modernist position – what he calls the ‘modern episteme’ – is failing, and proposes that psychoanalysis should redefine itself as a postmodern method...
Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud’s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus Complex and the interpretation of dreams, con..
Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud’s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus Complex and the interpretation of dreams, con..
Originally published in 1924, this biography of Freud looks at his early life as well as the development of his theories and his relationships with other well-known physicians of the time...
Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof...
Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof...