The witch's kitchen : Freud, Faust, and the transference / Sabine Prokhoris ; with a foreword by Monique Schneider ; translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Prokhoris, Sabine.

Standardized Title:

• Cuisine de la sorcière. English

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.
• Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
• Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1995.

Summary:

Sigmund Freud's writings bristle with citations from Goethe's masterpiece, Faust. Sabine Prokhoris maintains that Faust profoundly influenced Freud's psychoanalytic theory, particularly his conception of a cure. Its impact, she says, might be described as "analytic" in nature - a product of transference, the foundation of the psychoanalytic process. Citations from Goethe occur in many of Freud's texts, introduced suddenly to provoke or to underscore a point. Prokhoris asks a fascinating question: does the repetition of certain citations at critical junctures in many of Freud's texts provide important clues to the unconscious processes behind his analytic theory?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-190) and index.

ISBN:

0801430437

OCLC:

32854730