Freud
A Life for Our Time
Published on 9. April 2012
866 pages
978-0-393-07234-1 (ISBN)
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A national bestseller
"A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography... briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune
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Peter Gay (1923?2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.
Content
- Cover
- Books by Peter Gay
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- Preface
- Foundations: 1856-1905
- One: A Greed For Knowledge
- Food for Memories
- The Lure of Research
- Freud in Love
- Two: The Theory in the Making
- A Necessary Friend-and Enemy
- Hysterics, Projects, and Embarrassments
- Self-Analysis
- Three: Psychoanalysis
- The Secret of Dreams
- A Psychology for Psychologists
- From Rome To Vienna: A Progress
- A Map for Sex-Uality
- Elaborations: 1902-1915
- Four: Sketch of an Embattled Founder
- At Fifty
- Pleasures of the Senses
- The Wednesday Psychological Society
- The Foreigners
- Five: Psychoanalytic Politics
- Jung: The Crown Prince
- American Interlude
- Vienna Versus Zurich
- Jung: The Enemy
- Six: Therapy and Technique
- A Problematic Debut
- Two Classic Lessons
- In his Own Cause: Leonardo, Schreber, Fliess
- In his Own Cause: The Politics of the Wolf Man
- A Handbook For Technicians
- Seven: Applications and Implications
- Matters of Taste
- Foundations of Society
- Mapping the Mind
- The End of Europe
- Revisions: 1915-1939
- Eight: Aggressions
- Comprehensive and Momentous Things
- Uneasy Peace
- Death: Experience and Theory
- Eros, Ego, and Their Ene-Mies
- Nine: Death Against Life
- Intimations of Mortality
- Anna
- The Price of Popularity
- Vitality: The Berlin Spirit
- Ten: Flickering Lights on Dark Continents
- Rank and the Consequences
- Doctors' Dilemmas
- Woman, The Dark Continent
- Eleven: Human Nature at Work
- Against Illusions
- Civilization: The Human Predicament
- The Ugly Americans
- Trophies and Obituaries
- Twelve To Die in Freedom
- The Politics of Disaster
- Defiance as Identity
- Finis Austriae
- Death of a Stoic
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Photo Insert
- Copyright Page
