Freud
Freud

Author: Élisabeth Roudinesco

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0674974514

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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.

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Author: Colin Watts

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-05

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781539933977

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1881 at the University of Vienna. Upon completing his habilitation in 1885, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology and became an affiliated professor in 1902. Freud lived and worked in Vienna, having set up his clinical practice there in 1886. In 1938 Freud left Austria to escape the Nazis. He died in exile in the United Kingdom in 1939. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the underlying mechanisms of repression. On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture. Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause. Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. In the words of W. H. Auden's 1940 poetic tribute, by the time of Freud's death, he had become "a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct our different lives."

Freud; a Biographical Introduction
Freud; a Biographical Introduction

Author: Penelope Balogh

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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'Until the publication of Studies in Hysteria in 1885 only the occasional poet or philosopher was attracted to the idea that, hidden in each individual, there might exist a completely unknown part of the human mind, the 'unconscious.' The book deeply offended many people—especially as its author contended that it was this unconscious that contained the primitive drives of aggression and sex. It took only a quarter of a century (and one world war) to convince doctors, writers and teachers all over the world of the insight and wisdom of Freud's doctrine. But today, eighty years later, when many of his discoveries—together with the words he used to describe them—have become part of everyday speech, it could be well asked whether Freudian terminology has in fact been 'integrated'—or only half-digested? And whether these discoveries are still relevant to the complex and diverse streams of current psychoanalytic thought? The debate continues: on the one hand it is held that many Freudian theories are outmoded; on the other that he was the only man to have laid down a blueprint indicating the structure and development of the human mind. But it is a debate that cannot be joined without a basic knowledge of Freud's background, family and work; Penelope Balogh—herself a practicing psychotherapist—supplies the necessary information with clarity and precision. Her biography in particular demonstrates how every experience in Freud's life became material in his search for information: facts learned as a medical student, remote tribal customs, hypnosis, children's games—all contributed to his vast sore of knowledge, both in his practice as an analyst and in his writings, embodied in usch famous studies as Teh Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everday Life, Totem and Taboo and many others."-Publisher.

Dr. Freud, a Life
Dr. Freud, a Life

Author: Paul Ferris

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887178723

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Details the psychoanalyst's personal life, and explores how his experiences shaped his scientific theories.