Freud in his time and ours
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Porter, Catherine, 1941- translator.
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c2016.
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 580 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published as Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le notre"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-554) and index.
Description
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freuds life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu of fin de siecle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg Empire--an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig, and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire. Yet this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the analytically-minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his intellectual complexity--the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved--Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture.,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roudinesco, E., & Porter, C. (2016). Freud in his time and ours . Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1944- and Catherine Porter. 2016. Freud in His Time and Ours. Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1944- and Catherine Porter. Freud in His Time and Ours Harvard University Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roudinesco, Elisabeth, and Catherine Porter. Freud in His Time and Ours Harvard University Press, 2016.
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