Peter Gay's biography of Sigmund Freud-Freud: A Life for Our Time-is a deeply researched and far-reaching examination of one of the most provocative and influential thinkers of the modern era. Note: Gay defends herein psychoanalysis as a legitimate technique for the historical discipline. Valuable for intellectual historians: frequent 8-10 page summaries of particular books and essays. Freud left a fascinating and a subversive intellectual tradition. Indeed, his psychoanalytic concept of 'ambivalence' seems central if we hope to understand his personality & his work's significance.

While Gay places Freud firmly within an Enlightened intellectual tradition, he also presents Freud as a dialectical thinker wrestling with speculative concepts like the metapsychology of human instinct and the nature of aggression in evolutionary biology. (Breuer, Fleiss, Jung, all figure prominently as Freud's personal oedipal figures.) Expounds expansively on the significance of Freud’s thought - theoretical breakthroughs and as a cultural force. Does an especially nice job weaving Freud’s personal life into the narrative though, it must be reiterated: Gay spends the bulk of his biography wrestling with the nuances of Freud’s personal life as it relates to his theories. Gay skilfully navigates through Freud’s vast literary catalogue, providing both the personal (i.e., argumentative) and scientific context to help his audience gain access to Freud's rather towering intellect. Freud’s writings can be quite difficult and theory-laden. Treats the psychoanalytic movement, in terms of its theory, technique, and, of course, its politics. scientific - e.g., Darwin & physiological school). Heavy emphasis on ideas, especially within the nineteenth century context (both bourgeois Vienna & 19th c.

Urn:oclc:774046702 Republisher_date 20140617032940 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140614071047 Scanner biography of Freud (probably the best since Ernest Jones’s three v. Urn:lcp:freud00pete:epub:1cd1e749-d7b3-4142-9b35-741d40164b07 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier freud00pete Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t77t0cp2n Invoice 11 Isbn 0393318265ĩ780393318265 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL7457053M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:14:46 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA1119910 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

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