Recollecting Freud / Isidor Sadger ; edited by Alan Dundes ; translated by Johanna Micaela Jacobsen and Alan Dundes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadger, J.

Contributor:

Dundes, Alan.

Standardized Title:

Sigmund Freud. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysts--Austria--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Physical Description:

lvii, 138 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Available here for the first time in English, this eyewitness account by one of Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement-the internecine and ideological conflicts of Freud's disciples. They also illuminate Freud's own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, non-medical analysts. As a student, Sadger attended Freud's lectures from 1895 through 1904. Two years later Freud nominated Sadger to his Wednesday Psychological Society (later called the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society). Sadger, however, was not part of Freud's inner circle, but more a participant observer of the early years of the psychoanalytic movement and of Freud as teacher, therapist, and clinician. Sadger was considered one of the most devoted followers of Freud and hoped to become one of Freud's "favorite sons." At the First Psychoanalytic Congress held in Salzburg in 1908, Sadger was chosen to be one of the principal speakers along with Freud, Jones, Alder, Jung, Prince, Rifkin, Abraham, and Stekel, an honor that bespeaks Sadger's early role in the movement. But Freud and many of his disciples were also openly critical of Sadger's work, calling it at various times overly simplistic, unimaginative, reductionist, orthodox, and rigid. In 1930 Sadger published his memoir, Sigmund Freud: Persönliche Erinnerungen. With the rise of Nazism and World War II, the book became lost to the world of psychoanalytic history. Recently, Alan Dundes learned of its existence and mounted a search that led him around the world to one of the few extant copies-in a research library in Japan. The result of his fascinating quest is Recollecting Freud, a long-lost personal account that provides invaluable insights into Freud and his social, cultural, and intellectual context.

Contents:

My first encounter with Freud

Freud as speaker and writer, stylist and critic

Contributions to the study of Freud's character

Freud as leader and organizer

Freud and the clinic

Freud and the psychoanalytic congresses

Freud's wit

Freud and Judaism

Freud and lay analysis

From the last years of Freud's life.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612269875

9781282269873

1282269879

9780299211035

0299211037

OCLC:

290525697

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06594 hdl