With all the intrigue and twists of a mystery, "Questions for
Freud" uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and
traces them to Freud's vacillation at key points in his work--and
from there to a traumatic event in Freud's life.
What role did censored family history play in shaping Freud's
psychological inquiries, promoting and impeding them by turns? With
this question in mind, Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new
biographical and conceptual approach to psychoanalysis, one that
outlines Freud's contradictory theories of mental functioning
against the backdrop of his permanent lack of insight into crucial
and traumatic aspects of his immediate family's life. Taking us
through previously unpublished documents and Freud's dreams, his
clinical work and institutional organization, the authors show how
a shameful event in 1865 that shook Freud and his family can help
explain the internal clashes that later beset his work--on the
origins of neurosis, reality, trauma, fantasy, sexual repression,
the psychoanalytic study of literature, and dream
interpretation.
Steeped in the history, theory, and practice of psychoanalysis,
this book offers a guide to the wary, a way of understanding the
flaws and contradictions of Freud's thought without losing sight of
its significance. This book will alter the terms of the current
debate about the standing of psychoanalysis and Freud.
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