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Book Anti Freud

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  • Author : Thomas Szasz
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1990-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780815602477
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Anti Freud written by Thomas Szasz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why Freud was Wrong

Download or read book Why Freud was Wrong written by Richard Webster and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete and coherent account of Freud's life and work to be written from a consistently sceptical point of view. Meticulously researched and powerfully argued, the book is a devastating portrait of the interpreter of dreams.

Book In the Freud Archives

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  • Author : Janet Malcolm
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2002-11-30
  • ISBN : 159017027X
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book In the Freud Archives written by Janet Malcolm and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of psychoanalysis; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a flamboyant, restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian; and Peter Swales, a mischievous thirty-five-year-old former assistant to the Rolling Stones and self-taught Freud scholar. At the center of their Oedipal drama are the Sigmund Freud Archives--founded, headed, and jealously guarded by Eissler--whose sealed treasure gleams and beckons to the community of Freud scholarship as if it were the Rhine gold. Janet Malcolm's fascinating book first appeared some twenty years ago, when it was immediately recognized as a rare and remarkable work of nonfiction. A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.

Book Civilization and Its Discontents

Download or read book Civilization and Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Dover thrift editions).

Book Against Freud

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  • Author : Todd Dufresne
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780804755481
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Against Freud written by Todd Dufresne and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis.

Book Freud

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  • Author : Frederick Crews
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Books
  • Release : 2017-08-22
  • ISBN : 1627797181
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book Freud written by Frederick Crews and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers. A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.

Book Political Freud

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  • Author : Eli Zaretsky
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 0231540140
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Political Freud written by Eli Zaretsky and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consumer capitalism, racial violence, anti-Semitism, and patriarchy. He also underscores the continuing influence and critical potential of those ideas in the transformed landscape of the present. Zaretsky's conception of political Freudianism unites the two overarching themes of the last century—totalitarianism and consumerism—in a single framework. He finds that theories of mass psychology and the unconscious were central to the study of fascism and the Holocaust; to African American radical thought, particularly the struggle to overcome the legacy of slavery; to the rebellions of the 1960s; and to the feminism and gay liberation movements of the 1970s. Nor did the influence of political Freud end when the era of Freud bashing began. Rather, Zaretsky proves that political Freudianism is alive today in cultural studies, the study of memory, theories of trauma, postcolonial thought, film, media and computer studies, evolutionary theory and even economics.

Book Freud and His Critics

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  • Author : Paul Robinson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-07-26
  • ISBN : 0520414497
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Freud and His Critics written by Paul Robinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars against Freud were waged along virtually every front in the 1980s. In Freud and His Critics, Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable detractors, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum. Frank Sulloway contends that Freud took most of his ideas from Darwin and other contemporary thinkers—that he was something of a closet biologist. Jeffrey Masson charges that Freud caved in to peer pressure when he abandoned his early seduction theory (which Masson believes was correct) in favor of the theory of infantile sexuality. Adolf Grünbaum impugns Freud's claim to have grounded his ideas—especially the idea of the unconscious—on solid empirical foundations. Under Robinson's rigorous cross-examination, the evidence of these three accusers proves ambiguous and their arguments biased by underlying assumptions and ideological commitments. Robinson concludes that the anti-Freudian writings of Sulloway, Masson, and Grünbaum reveal more about their authors' prejudices—and about the Zeitgeist of the 1980s—than they do about Freud. Indeed, they fundamentally distort and diminish Freud, pointedly ignoring his remarkable historical achievement—the invention of a new way of thinking about the self that has revolutionized the modern imagination. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Book Freud s World

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  • Author : Luis A. Cordón
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-05-08
  • ISBN : 0313084416
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Freud s World written by Luis A. Cordón and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising well-known and obscure information, this compendium provides a historical context to the facts of Sigmund Freud's life, theories, and influence on society. Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential 20th-century intellectuals in Europe and the United States. His innovative theories and unprecedented practices are topics worthy of extensive review, but just as fascinating are the events of his life and the origins of his core beliefs. Freud's World: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Times organizes the important components of Freud's life and work in an encyclopedia format, enabling readers to quickly zero in on the particular ideas, individuals, and circumstances that contributed to his vast influence. Controversy about the scientific utility of psychoanalytic concepts is specifically addressed. Gathering a wide range of information into a single, easy-to-read volume, this book serves as an ideal starting point for any student interested in learning about Sigmund Freud.

Book Introducing the Freud Wars

Download or read book Introducing the Freud Wars written by Stephen Wilson and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compact INTRODUCING guide on the debates surrounding psychoanalysis's most contested figure. Freud is universally recognised as a pivotal figure in modern culture. Yet the man and his work continually attract scandal, outrage and scientific suspicion. Was he a psychological genius or a peddler of humbug? Despite his atheism, did he invent a new religious cult? Is he to blame for disguising the prevalence of sexual abuse? Is there an Oedipus Complex? Was he a drug addict? A wittily illustrated glimpse behind the demonised myths to the heart of a red-hot debate.

Book Moses and the Monotheistic Religion  and other Writings on Religion by Freud

Download or read book Moses and the Monotheistic Religion and other Writings on Religion by Freud written by Sigmund Freud and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1939 Moses the Man and the Monotheistic Religion, his last published major work, followed by his 1927 The Future of an Illusion (Die Zukunft einer Illusion) and several other major works on religion. This collection constitutes Freud's major works focused on the critique of religion, which was a major conflict between Freud and Carl Jung. This edition includes a rare and bizarre 1928 Pathography essay on Dostoevsky, whom he thought no one would care about in the future. The works included in this edition are: In German: 1907 Zwangshandlungen und Religionsübungen 1916 Vergänglichkeit 1927 Die Zukunft einer Illusion 1928 Dostojewski und die Vatertötung 1937 Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse 1939 Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion In English: 1907 Compulsive Acts and Religious Exercises 1916 Transience (or impermanence) 1927 The Future of an Illusion 1928 Dostoevsky and the Killing of the Father 1937 The finite and the infinite analysis 1939 Moses the Man and the Monotheistic Religion This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology and a timeline of Freud’s life & works. This is Volume X in the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected systematic works laid out across 14 volumes by topic and contains essays which have never been translated into until now.

Book The Unconscious  and Related Writings of Freud

Download or read book The Unconscious and Related Writings of Freud written by Sigmund Freud and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1915 The Unconscious (Das Unbewußte) followed by the related 1915 writing "Instincts and their Vicissitudes" (Triebe und Triebschicksale), 1917 Mourning and Melancholia and his 1919 The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche), all of which comment on the power of the Unconscious. This edition unifies all of his core works on the nature and function of the Unconscious. This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology and a timeline of Freud’s life & works. This is Volume VIII in the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected systematic works laid out across 14 volumes contains essays which have never been translated into until now.

Book Clinical Case Studies of Freud  New Translations of Freud s Case Work

Download or read book Clinical Case Studies of Freud New Translations of Freud s Case Work written by Sigmund Freud and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation from the original German manuscript of all of Freud's clinical studies upon which he built his broader theories into one edition, starting with his earliest works on the origins of Hysteria. His 1895 studies on hysteria are published in a separate volume due to its size, but all works related to his analysis of specific cases he took on as a clinical psychologist are included here. The 9 works are included in this edition are: Original Titles in German: 1905 Bruchstück einer Hysterie-Analyse 1908 Hysterische Phantasien und ihre Beziehung zur Bisexualität 1909 Allgemeines über den hysterischen Anfall 1909 Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose 1911 Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia paranoides) 1918 Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose 1931 Über libidinöse Typen 1909 Analyse der Phobie eines fünfjährigen Knaben 1922 Über einige neurotische Mechanismen bei Eifersucht In English: 1905 Fragment of an analysis of hysteria 1908 Hysterical Fantasies and their Relationship to Bisexuality 1909 General remarks on the hysterical attack 1909 Remarks on a case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis 1911 Psychoanalytic remarks on an autobiographically described case of paranoia (dementia paranoides) 1918 From the history of an infantile neurosis 1931 On libidinous types 1909 Analysis of the phobia of a five-year-old boy 1922 On some neurotic mechanisms in jealousy This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology, a timeline of Freud’s life & works and other supplemental materials and illustrations This is Volume II in the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected works contains works which have never been translated into until now.

Book Freud s Moses

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  • Author : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300057560
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Freud s Moses written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic assumptions have been generally rejected by biblical scholars, anthropologists, and historians of religion, the book has increasingly been approached psychoanalytically, as a psychological document of Freud's inner life--of his allegedly unresolved Oedipal complex and ambivalence over his Jewish identity. In Freud's Moses a distinguished historian of the Jews brings a new perspective to this puzzling work. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi argues that while attempts to psychoanalyze Freud's text may be potentially fruitful, they must be preceded by a genuine effort to understand what Freud consciously wanted to convey to his readers. Using both historical and philological analysis, Yerushalmi offers new insights into Freud's intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism. He presents the work as Freud's psychoanalytic history of the Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish psyche--his attempt, under the shadow of Nazism, to discover what has made the Jews what they are. In the process Yerushalmi's eloquent and sensitive exploration of Freud's last work provides a reappraisal of Freud's feelings toward anti-Semitism and the gentile world, his ambivalence about psychoanalysis as a "Jewish" science, his relationship to his father, and above all a new appreciation of the depth and intensity of Freud's identity as a "godless Jew."

Book Freud  Psychoanalysis and Symbolism

Download or read book Freud Psychoanalysis and Symbolism written by Agnes Petocz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Petocz uncovers a theory of symbolism based on investigation of the development of Freud's ideas throughout works.

Book Freud and the Legacy of Moses

Download or read book Freud and the Legacy of Moses written by Richard J. Bernstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish people. It is this character that has enabled the Jewish people to survive despite persecution and virulent anti-Semitism, and Freud proudly identifies himself with it. In his analysis of Freud's often misunderstood last work, Bernstein goes on to shows how Freud expands and deepens our understanding of a religious tradition by revealing its unconscious dynamics.

Book Freud s Theory of Hysteria  A reply to the Aschaffenburg critique

Download or read book Freud s Theory of Hysteria A reply to the Aschaffenburg critique written by Carl Jung and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906, Carl Jung published "Freud's Theory of Hysteria. A Reply to the Aschaffenburg Critique" (Die Hysterielehre Freuds. Eine Erwiderung auf die Aschaffenburgsche Kritik), which represents one of his early defenses of Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, particularly concerning the origins and nature of hysteria. This essay was written in response to a critique by Gustav Aschaffenburg, a well-known German psychiatrist who challenged Freud’s theory, particularly its emphasis on the sexual etiology of hysteria. Aschaffenburg argued that Freud's views were overly focused on sexual factors and failed to adequately consider other potential causes, such as hereditary or environmental factors. In his reply, Jung supports Freud’s theory that repressed sexual trauma and desires were central to the development of hysterical symptoms. Jung defended Freud’s notion that hysteria is linked to unresolved psychosexual conflicts, particularly those emerging from early childhood. At this stage in his career, Jung was still closely aligned with Freud’s thinking, and his defense highlights his deep involvement with psychoanalysis prior to his later theoretical divergences from Freud. Jung’s argument in this essay not only emphasizes the importance of psychoanalytic theory but also showcases his willingness to engage critically with contemporary psychiatry. He methodically addresses Aschaffenburg’s critiques, arguing that Freud’s theory offers the most coherent explanation for the wide variety of symptoms exhibited by hysterical patients. In doing so, Jung also touches on broader psychoanalytic themes, such as the unconscious mind and repression, setting the stage for his later developments in the field. A new translation of Jung's initial criticisms of Freud's theories printed in 1906 and originally titled "Die Hysterielehre Freuds. Eine Erwiderung auf die Aschaffenburgsche Kritik" and was first printed in the "Münchner medizinische Wochenschrift" in München 1906. This is an early detailed critique and discussion of Freud's theory on hysteria, specifically addressing Aschaffenburg's critique of this theory. The text delves into various aspects of Freud's ideas, including the role of sexuality in the development of psychoneuroses and the validity of Freud's psychological theories related to dreams, wit, and disturbances in everyday thinking. This edition is a new translation from the original German manuscript with an Afterword by the Translator, a philosophic index of Jung's terminology and a timeline of his life and works.