Featuring twenty-five leading writers, an all-new collection of
colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his
legacy today With never-before-published contributions by André
Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt
• Gerald Early • Esther Freud • Rivka Galchen • Adam Gopnik
• David Gordon • Siri Hustvedt • Sheila Kohler • Peter D.
Kramer • Philip Lopate • Thomas Lynch • Daphne Merkin •
David Michaelis • Rick Moody • Susie Orbach • Richard Panek
• Alex Pheby • Michael Roth • Casey Schwartz • Mark Solms
• Colm Tóibín • Sherry Turkle W. H. Auden described Sigmund
Freud (1856–1939) as “a whole climate of opinion. / Under whom
we conduct our differing lives.” The controversial father of
psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Freud charted the human unconscious,
brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among
the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great
analyst is analyzed by some of today’s great writers and
thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us
understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever.
The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud’s
continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture,
science, and more. Here, Colm Tóibín writes about Freud, World
War I, Henry James, and Thomas Mann; Adam Gopnik explores Freud’s
Civilization and Its Discontents; Susie Orbach considers Freud’s
“ordinary unhappiness” and D. W. Winnicott’s “good
enough”; Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on penis envy and
transgender; Peter Kramer describes how new science and drugs have
revolutionized psychology since Freud; Susie Boyt, one of Freud’s
great-granddaughters, spends the night at the Freud Museum in
London; Siri Hustvedt examines Freud’s divided reception today;
and there’s much more. Filled with insights, provocation, and
humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of
Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed
how we see ourselves and the world.
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
14 May 2024 |
| Firstpublished: |
2024 |
| Editors: |
Andrew Blauner
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-24243-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-24243-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780691242439 |
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