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These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members.
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE At the historic corner window: 17.6.1897CHAPTER TWO Trottoir roulant, 1900 CHAPTER THREE ". . . such a difficult task as our marriage . . ."CHAPTER FOUR Mysteries of nature CHAPTER FIVE Freud & Co. CHAPTER SIX Portrait of an alien enemy CHAPTER SEVEN "I'm staying there"CHAPTER EIGHT ". . . the child should know . . ."CHAPTER NINE "Portrait of a refugee"CHAPTER TEN Her critical eyeNOTES REFERENCES INDEX
About the author
Michael Molnar was employed as researcher at the Freud Museum in London from 1986 to 2003, and as director from 2003 to 2009. He translated and annotated Freud's 1930s diary notes, published as
The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-39. He has published numerous contributions to the history of psychoanalysis in
Luzifer-Amor,
Psychoanalysis and History and elsewhere.
Summary
These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members.
