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Freud, Alder, and Jung - Discovering the Mind (Hardcover)
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Freud, Alder, and Jung - Discovering the Mind (Hardcover)
Series: Discovering the Mind Series
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Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his
landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is
the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and
teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund
Freud, the man he thought had done as much as anyone to discover
and illuminate the human mind. Kaufmann's own analytical brilliance
seems a fitting reflection of Freud's, and his acute commentary
affords fitting company to Freud's own thought. Kaufmann traces the
intellectual tradition that culminated in Freud's blending of
analytic scientific thinking with humanistic insight to create "a
poetic science of the mind." He argues that despite Freud's great
achievement and celebrity, his work and person have often been
misunderstood and unfairly maligned, the victim of poor
translations and hostile critics. Kaufmann dispels some of the
myths that have surrounded Freud and damaged his reputation. He
takes pains to show how undogmatic, how open to discussion, and how
modest Freud actually was. Kaufmann endeavors to defend Freud
against the attacks of his two most prominent apostate disciples,
Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Adler is revealed as having been
jealous, hostile, and an ingrate, a muddled thinker and unskilled
writer, and remarkably lacking in self-understanding. Jung emerges
in Kaufmann's depiction as an unattractive, petty, and envious
human being, an anti-Semite, an obscure and obscurantist thinker,
and, like Adler, lacking insight into himself. Freud, on the
contrary, is argued to have displayed great nobility and great
insight into himself and his wayward disciples in the course of
their famous fallings-out.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Discovering the Mind Series |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
First published: |
1992 |
Editors: |
Walter Kaufmann
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
494 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-52387-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-52387-9 |
Barcode: |
9781138523876 |
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