| Description |
viii, 472 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Freud's life: the first thirty years. Traumatic infancy -- Childhood and adolescence -- Early adult years: searching for an identity -- Opening up: Martha, cocaine, Fleischl -- Jean-Martin Charcot: "The Napoléon of neuroses" -- Martha: "the loss of an illusion" -- Birth of psychoanalysis -- Josef Breuer and the invention of psychotherapy -- Breuer, Freud, and the Studies on hysteria: 1886-1895 -- Break with Breuer -- Self-analysis and the invention of the Oedipus complex -- Interpretation of dreams and the end of the Fliess Affair -- Great Freud emerges: 1899-1905 -- pt. 3. Psychoanalytic movement: 1902-1939. Psychoanalytic movement: images of war -- Alfred Adler: the first dissident -- King and his knights: the committee -- Carl Gustav Jung: the favorite son expelled -- First World War -- Trauma revisited: the neuroses of war -- Freud at work: the postwar years -- Freud at home -- Anna Freud: the perfect disciple -- Otto Rank: "I was deepest of all" -- "What does a woman want?" -- Sándor Ferenczi: the wise baby -- Final years |
| Summary |
"Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, plunged into the dark regions of the human psyche - including his own - to reveal the truth about sexuality, neurosis, and the unconscious. Or so the legend has it. In this perceptive biography, Louis Breger presents a striking new portrait of one of the great figures of the twentieth century, showing how Freud systematically obscured the truth about his life to create a heroic image of himself that was a blend of fact and fantasy." |
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"Breger's insightful portrait reveals Freud as a man of striking contradictions, someone whose startling originality coexisted with a rigid adherence to dogma, a person who spent his life immersed in the most intimate details of other people's lives yet remained wrapped up in himself and curiously remote from others, a man of deep insights who was also blind to the effect he had on other people. In demythologizing Freud, Breger penetrates to the "darkness" behind one of the brightest minds of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-456) and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysts -- Austria -- Biography.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| SUBJECT |
Austria. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001317 |
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Austria. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001317 |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biography.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
99059994 |
| ISBN |
0471316288 hardcover alkaline paper |
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