Questions for Freud : : The Secret History of Psychoanalysis / / Nicholas Rand, Mária Török.

With all the intrigue and twists of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to Freud's vacillation at key points in his work--and from there to a traumatic event in Freud's life. What role did censored family history play in sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Why Question Freud?
  • III Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought
  • 1. Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?
  • 2. The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps
  • III Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature
  • 3. Applied Psychoanalysis in Question
  • 4. A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen’s Gradiva
  • 5. The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen
  • III Transmissions of Psychoanalysis
  • 6. Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis
  • 7. The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N.
  • 8. Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi’s Research on Trauma
  • IV Gaining Insight into Freud
  • 9. Methodological Issues
  • 10. The Freud Family’s Disaster Seen through the Original Documents
  • 11. Freud’s Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies
  • 12. Freud’s Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster
  • 13. The Secret of Psychoanalysis
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index