
The Freud Files
An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. November 2011
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450 pages
978-0-521-72978-9 (ISBN)
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Description
How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why did Freud 'triumph' to such a degree that we hardly remember his rivals? This book reconstructs the early controversies around psychoanalysis and shows that rather than demonstrating its superiority, Freud and his followers rescripted history. This legend-making was not an incidental addition to psychoanalytic theory but formed its core. Letting the primary material speak for itself, this history demonstrates the extraordinary apparatus by which this would-be science of psychoanalysis installed itself in contemporary societies. Beyond psychoanalysis, it opens up the history of the constitution of the modern psychological sciences and psychotherapies, how they furnished the ideas which we have of ourselves and how these became solidified into indisputable 'facts'.
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'Attempts to debunk the legend in the 1970s and 80s failed. But a current assault, helped by a wealth of 'declassified' material, correspondence and critical studies, looks more likely to dismantle the monomyth ... the legend is 'fraying from all sides'.' New ScientistMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-72978-9 (9780521729789)
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen | Sonu Shamdasani
The Freud Files
An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
Book
11/2011
Cambridge University Press
€102.00
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen | Sonu Shamdasani
The Freud Files
An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen | Sonu Shamdasani
The Freud Files
An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
Book
11/2011
Cambridge University Press
€102.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Professor Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology and psychiatry and is widely regarded as the leading Jung historian at work today. His numerous publications have been translated into many languages and his last edited book, Jung's Red Book (2009) was on The New York Times bestseller list and a documentary is currently being prepared on the subject. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of highly influential books on the theory and history of psychoanalysis and co-author of the bestselling Le livre noir de la psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis).
Content
Introduction: the past of an illusion; 1. Privatising science; 2. The interprefaction of dreams; 3. Case histories; 4. Policing the past; Coda: what was psychoanalysis?