Freud, Biologist of the Mind
Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend, With a New Preface by the Author
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
638 pages
978-0-674-32335-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero as it served to consolidate the analytic movement. This is a revolutionary reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis.
Reviews / Votes
Fascinating... A thought-provoking tour through this extraordinary chapter in the history of ideas. -- Jean Strouse * Newsweek * A work of prodigious scholarship in its own right. It establishes a new level of empirical precision and critical skill in the analysis of Freud's life. -- Peter Brooks * New York Times Book Review * Extraordinarily exciting and enlightening... A truly comprehensive intellectual biography of Freud and the analytic movement, which embodies the scholarship so sorely lacking in previous endeavors... The result here is an informative, authoritative, and comprehensive work, brimming with all sorts of revelations and new versions of old tales about Freud's...predecessors and contemporaries. One's view of Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis will never be quite the same after reading this book. -- Arnold Bernstein * Modern Psychoanalysis *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 halftones, 1 table, 2 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
671 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-32335-3 (9780674323353)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Content
Preface to the1992 Edition Preface and Guide to the Reader Acknowledgments Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: Freud and Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics 1. The Nature and Origins of Psychoanalysis 2. Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer: Toward a Psychophysical Theory of Hysteria (1880-95) 3. Sexuality and the Etiology of Neurosis: The Estrangement of Breuer and Freud 4. Freud's Three Major Psychoanalytic Problems and the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) PART TWO: Psychoanalysis: The Birth of a Genetic Psychobiology 5. Wilhelm Fliess and the Mathematics of Human Sexual Biology 6. Freud's Psychoanalytic Transformation of the Fliessian Id 7. The Darwinian Revolution's Legacy to Psychology and Psychoanalysis 8. Freud and the Sexologists 9. Dreams and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life 10. Evolutionary Biology Resolves Freud's Three Psychoanalytic Problems (1905-39) 11. Life (Eros) and Death Instincts: Culmination of a Biogenetic Romance PART THREE: Ideology, Myth, and History in the Origins of Psychoanalysis 12. Freud as Crypto-Biologist: The Politics of Scientific Independence 13. The Myth of the Hero in the Psychoanalytic Movement 14. Epilogue and Conclusion Appendix A: Two Published Accounts Detailing Josef Breuer's 4 November 1895 Defense of Freud's Views on Sexuality and Neurosis Appendix B: Josef Breuer's Met psychology: The Matter of the "Remarkable Paradox" Appendix C: Dr. Felix Gattel's Scientific Collaboration with Freud (1897/98) Appendix D: The Dating of Freud's Reading of Albert Moll's Untersuchungen uher die Libido sexualis Bibliography Index