From one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud
comes a strikingly original biography of the father of
psychoanalysis Becoming Freud is the story of the young
Freud—Freud up until the age of fifty—that incorporates all of
Freud’s many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud
invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and
revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the
writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the
New Yorker calls “Britain’s foremost psychoanalytical
writer,” emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story
of Freud’s earliest years as the oldest—and favored—son of
Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the
psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a
psychology of the immigrant—increasingly, of course,
everybody’s status in the modern world.  Psychoanalysis
was also Freud’s way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews
in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So
as well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his
contemporaries, Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of
the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a
period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution.
Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have
become if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a
psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Jewish Lives |
| Release date: |
April 2016 |
| Authors: |
Adam Phillips
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| Dimensions: |
209 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
178 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-21983-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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| LSN: |
0-300-21983-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780300219838 |
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