Freud and the Child Woman - The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels (Paperback)

Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, Karl Kraus. Towards the end of his life, while living and practising as an analyst in the United States, Wittels wrote a two-hundred page memoir of his early life and career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, held in the archives of the Abraham Brill Library, New York, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, they have been deftly edited, contextualised and introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the 'child woman' of the title. In his memoirs Wittels writes frankly and vividly about the erotic sub-culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and about early controversies within the Psychoanalytic Society. His picture of the interaction between the two is startingly original, and will appeal not only to historians of psychoanalysis, but to anyone interested in the Viennese cultural avant-garde.The erotic triangles in which Wittels, Kraus and Freud were involved are shown to have impinged directly on the activities of the famous Society. Freud himself plays a crucial role in the story, and the book as a whole is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis. Edward Timms was Professor of German and Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. Among his publications is 'Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist' (1986), and he is co-editor of 'Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and its Vicissitudes' (1988) and of 'Austrian Exodus: The Creative Achievements of Refugees from National Socialism' (1995).

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1995
First published:	October 1995
Authors:	Fritz Wittels
Editors:	Edward Timms
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	202
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-18719-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-300-18719-X
Barcode:	9780300187199

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