Freud : In His Time and Ours / Élisabeth Roudinesco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roudinesco, Élisabeth., author.

Contributor:

Porter, Catherine, 1941- translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysts--Austria--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

Austria--History--19th century.

Austria.

Austria--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 pages)

Edition:

Translated by Catherine Porter

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud’s biography for the twenty-first century—a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freud’s life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis’ annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu of fin de siècle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg Empire—an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig, and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire. Yet this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the analytically-minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his intellectual complexity—the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved—Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Translator’s Note

Introduction

Part One. The Life

Part Two. The Conquest

Part Three. At Home

Part Four. The Final Years

Notes

Works Cited

Bibliography: Freud in French

Freud’s Patients

Family Tree

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)

ISBN:

9780674974517

0674974514

9780674974524

0674974522

OCLC:

984688325