Freud: An Intellectual Biography

✍ Scribed by Joel Whitebook

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 497
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Half Title
Title Page
Imprints Page
Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Wandering Jews: From Galicia to Vienna
2 Freud's Bildung
3 Science as Vocation
4 Starting Out in Vienna
5 A Theoretical Excursus
6 "Dear Magician"
7 Becoming the First Psychoanalyst
8 Jung and the Counter-Enlightenment
9 Exorcising the "Odium Jungian"
10 "What Is Painful May None the Less Be Real": Loss, Mourning, and Ananke
11 Making Sense of the Death Instinct
12 Leaving Heaven to the Angels and the Sparrows: Freud's Critique of Religion
13 Late Freud and the Early Mother
Bibliography
Index

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