Freud A Life for Our Time

Name: Freud A Life for Our Time
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ISBN: 9780393328615

ISBN-10: 0393328619

ISBN-13: 9780393328615

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter Gay

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Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth by reissuing Peter Gay's best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction. A New York Times bestseller, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it,…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 866
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.45" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.



Foreword to the Norton Paperback Edition


Preface



A Greed for Knowledge


Food for Memories


The Lure of Research


Freud in Love


A Necessary Friend- and Enemy



The Theory in the Making


Hysterics, Projects, and Embarrassments


Self-Analysis



Psychoanalysis


The Secret of Dreams


A Psychology for Psychologists


From Rome to Vienna: a Progress


A Map for Sexuality



Sketch of an Embattled Founder


At Fifty


Pleasures of the Senses


The Wednesday Psychological Society


The Foreigners



Psychoanalytic Politics


Jung: the Crown Prince


American Interlude


Vienna Versus Zurich


Jung: the Enemy



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


Matters of Taste



Applications and Implications


Foundations of Society


Mapping the Mind


The End of Europe



Aggressions


Comprehensive and Momentous Things


Uneasy Peace


Death: Experience and Theory


Eros, Ego, and Their Enemies



Death Against Life


Intimations of Mortality


Anna


The Price of Popularity


Vitality: the Berlin Spirit



Flickering Lights on Dark Continents


Rank and the Consequences


Doctors' Dilemmas


Woman, the Dark Continent


Against Illusions



Human Nature at Work


Civilization: the Human Predicament


The Ugly Americans


Trophies and Obituaries



To Die in Freedom


The Politics of Disaster


Defiance as Identity


Finis Austriae


Death of a Stoic


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Acknowledgments


Index