Freud - An Intellectual Biography

This book presents a radical look at the founder of psychoanalysis in his broader cultural context, addressing critical issues and challenging stereotypes.

List of contents

1. Wandering Jews - from Galicia to Vienna; 2. Freud's Bildung; 3. Science as vocation; 4. Starting out in Vienna; 5. A theoretical excursus; 6. 'Dear magician'; 7. Becoming the first psychoanalyst; 8. Jung and the Counter-Enlightenment; 9. Exorcising the 'Odium Jungian'; 10. 'What is painful may none the less be real' - loss, mourning, and Ananke; 11. Making sense of the death instinct; 12. Leaving heaven to the angels and the sparrows - Freud's critique of religion; 13. Late Freud and the early mother.

About the author

Joel Whitebook is a philosopher and psychoanalyst who maintained a private practice in New York City for twenty-five years. He is currently on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and he is the Director of the University's Psychoanalytic Studies Program. He is also the author of Perversion and Utopia (1995) and numerous articles.

Summary

Freud's enduring appeal, as a thinker and as an individual, extends to both general readers and professionals. This highly readable biography, the first in English since 1998, addresses current issues in psychoanalysis, philosophy, gender studies, and social theory from a Freudian perspective, and illuminates the life of the man himself.

Product details

• Authors: Whitebook Joel Whitebook, Joel Whitebook, Joel (Columbia University Whitebook, Whitebook Joel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108829045
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82904-5
• No. of pages: 492
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Popular psychology, Popular philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis