On Freud's: "Observations on Transference-Love" (Contemporary Freud)

On Freud's: "Observations on Transference-Love" (Contemporary Freud) Review

Each volume of this series presents a classic essay by Freud and discussions of the essay by psychoanalytic teachers and analysts who differ in emphasis and theoretical backgrounds. In this paper, Freud discusses the inevitability of "transference-love", and of its function and hazards.

The Boy Will Come to Nothing!: Freud`s Ego Ideal and Freud as Ego Ideal

The Boy Will Come to Nothing!: Freud`s Ego Ideal and Freud as Ego Ideal Review

According to this text, one's capacity to mature depends in large part on our ability to transfer hero worship from parents to people outside the family. This book illustrates the thesis by investigating Sigmund Freud's own ego ideals, showing how he was influenced by his father.

Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience

Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience Review

Cioffi's cricisms of Freud, freudian theory, and freudians is trenchant and exhaustive. It is, however, tough reading. He tends to be wordy and his sentence structure needlessly convoluted. It takes multipile readings to really understand what he is talking about, and it helps to have some background in philosophy, or at least in the revisionist Freud issues. That said, the book is a real contribution, with a new essay and several classic articles that are hard to get elsewhere. I highly recommend it. Frederick Crews once said that those still enamoured with freudian thought should be sentenced to a year's hard reading. This book would be an excellent part of that year's study.

For three decades Frank Cioffi has been at the center of the debate over Freud's legacy and the legitimacy of psychoanalysis. Cioffi has given startling demonstrations that, in one area after another, Freud's accounts of the development of his theories are untruthful. But Cioffi's even more impressive achievement has been to scrupulously distinguish the many different, often equivocal, assertions made by psychoanalysis, thus laying bare the mechanism of its rhetorical conjuring tricks.

Augustine To Freud: What Theologians & Psychologists Tell Us About Human Nature (And Why It Matters)

Augustine To Freud: What Theologians & Psychologists Tell Us About Human Nature (And Why It Matters) Review

For Christians seeking to reconcile secular Psychology with a Biblical Christian Worldview, the search is over. Kenneth Boa tackles an issue that has been met with hot debate within Christian circles, and he does it as fairly as any Christian author could. As difficult as it is to remove one's Christian bias, Boa delivers the information free of ad hominem attacks and emotional appeals from start to finish. Some have said that Christians "throw the baby out with the bath water" when the topic of secular Psychology comes up. Rest assured; Boa stands far and away from such sweeping reductionism.

Kenneth Boa starts by giving wonderfully written and informative sections on six of the most influential theologians in Christian history: Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards, S?ren Kierkegaard, Paul Tillich, and Karl Rahner. These six opening sections will be a refreshing eye opener for the person who thinks theology is boring and hard to understand. For the up-and-coming theologian, it will be simple, informative, and refreshing. After outlining the basics of what each theologian thinks, Boa critiques them on their beliefs and foundations. However, he does not dismantle or critically evaluate these six men from head to toe. Boa shows where their strongest points are, and honestly addresses the weak points have been evaluated and fixed over time. The third chapter focuses on comparing and contrasting the six theologians. Boa points to their agreement over much of human need while showing their divergence on some issues of human behavior. At this point in the book, it will seem as if certain topics and ideas have been repeated and restated often. One needs to remember that it is because the six theologians wrote in very similar ways about the nature of humanity in relation to a Holy and Perfect God.

The second part of the book addresses the four versions of Psychology that the founding fathers of Psychology helped to develop. Starting with the Psychosocial Version, he writes in the same informative and simplistic nature about Sigmund Freud and Erik H. Erikson. Transitioning into the Intrapsychic Version with C.G. Jung and Otto Rank as the representative Psychologists. Boa then moves to the Actualization Version with Abraham H. Maslow and Carl R. Rogers. Finally, he closes the snapshot sections with the Perfection Version with Alfred Adler and Erich Fromm holding the founding flags. Similar to when Boa critiqued the six theologians, he then critiques each of the eight Psychologists. Some readers will be pleasantly surprised that Kenneth Boa finds some positive things to say about Freud while steering clear of the typical ad hominem attacks that so many people fall prey to. The critique section will be an eye opener for any biased anti-Psychology Christians that may read the book. To those seeking for a balanced and fair view of Psychology, you'll be warmly informed. Finally, closing the Psychology section of the book, Boa compares and contrasts the four Psychological models and their token Psychologists.

If Kenneth Boa stopped there, the book would be good. However, he went on to write the final chapter entitled: "A Comparison and Contrast of the Theological Models and the Psychological Models" and an Appendix entitled: "Human Needs in the New Testament." The reader will leave feeling sobered, informed, and strengthened by this wonderfully needed study by Kenneth Boa. The final chapter and appendix are too brilliant and helpful to praise in this review. I challenge your curiosity by saying no more about them than this: It is the best part of the book, and every Christian in our western culture should read (at the very least) the last chapter and appendix. In this book, Ken Boa takes the reader on an innovative exercise as he examines what six prominent theologians and eight psychologists of renown believe and teach about human needs. Where do they agree about human nature? Where do they disagree? Are their differences based on scientific knowledge?

Psychobabble has become a part of culture’s everyday vocabulary. Terms are bandied about and statements are taken as truth without knowing where they come from or what they imply. Augustine to Freud will help readers see how psychological perspectives are in harmony with Christian theological perspectives, and where they sometimes do conflict.

Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946 - 2004

Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946 - 2004 Review

This book accompanies an exhibition by Lucian Freud, which is the first museum retrospective devoted to his prints. Throughout his career Freud has been recognised for producing works of unnerving psychological intensity, and is regarded as one of the leading figurative artists of the twentieth century. His supreme ability as a draughtsman lends itself to the monochromatic, tightly controlled technique of etching and he has used this medium to produce works of great intimacy.

Freud's Traumatic Memory: Reclaiming Seduction Theory And Revisiting Oedipus

Freud's Traumatic Memory: Reclaiming Seduction Theory And Revisiting Oedipus Review

The author states convincingly that Freud had a rather limiting construction of Oedipus, not realizing that it was the life of Laius, Oedipus' father and Freud's father as well that must be brought to our attention. Not to mention the fact that Freud was sexually abused by his nanny and subsequently found himself experiencing a sexual attraction to his mother at a young age, which he tried to universalize.

The book is clearly written and the author shows compassion for Freud even in spite of the areas of psychoanalysis in which she disagrees with some of the ideas Freud promulgated. She also shows compassion for those who have experienced sexual trauma and find emotional healing hard to come by.

I have not studied any of Freud's writings in any detail, but feel this author made doing so somewhat unnecessary for me as one who has had mental health issues of mine own to deal with and a preference for Jungian thought and Viktor Frankl's logotherapy. This study is a comprehensive analysis of both the original Oedipus myths and the Greek myths of father-daughter incest. Marcel applies the most recent clinical work on trauma and recovered memory to Freud's own memories and uncovers why Freud turned away from the seduction theory, misconstrued Oedipus, and was able to cure his own neurosis.

Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology

Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology Review

I cannot overstate how important i believe this book to be. it is a book about a short stay freud had in america in 1909, during which his great discoveries were watered down for the american market, so to speak, and he was abandoned by colleagues he found he could not trust, particularly by jung, who appears a very unpleasant and nasty person. but the revolutionary material Prochnik has uncovered--stuff i have never seen, read, heard about, or even heard intimated, is that freud had no trouble with homosexaulity (this is more than just being accepting of it) and that he did not mind, even in himself, the fantasies that he knew to be homoerotic and that he himself fanatacized acting upon, on this particular trip with Jung himself. All these years freud's words have been twisted by his "followers" into a hate for homosexuals that he himself never harbored. yes, this is, for this gay reader, one of the seminal new bits of this endless puzzle of why we have been hated, somehow, and that this book, this quiet and beautifully written book by a heterosexual harvard scholar, may help to put right at last. prochnik writes about much more that happened on this trip; he has a cast not only including freud and jung, but also william james, emerson, ferenczi, adler, brill, jones, all the biggies of that day. and he makes you care about them. freud himself is made infinitely moving and sad in a way i have never encountered. by the end of this history, freud is all alone, no friends that once supported him and sat at this feet, his great system of treatment butchered by alien other philosophies of treatment that had nothing to do with what freud said. as i said, i could not put this book down. it took me three whole days and evenings to absorb it. a reader learns a great great deal. now who could ask more for a book than this! larry kramer An innovative work of biography that traces the lasting impact of the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering American psychologist James Jackson Putnam.

In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to "Putnam Camp"—the eminent American psychologist James Jackson Putnam's family retreat in the Adirondacks. "Of everything I experienced in America, this is probably the strangest," Freud wrote of Putnam Camp. Putnam, a Boston Unitarian, and Freud, a Viennese Jew, came from opposite worlds, cherished polarized ambitions, and promoted seemingly irreconcilable visions of human nature—and yet they struck up an unusually fruitful collaboration. Putnam's unimpeachable reputation played a crucial role in legitimizing the psychoanalytic movement. By the time of Putnam's death in 1918, psychoanalysis had been launched in America, where—thanks to the influence of Putnam, and in a development Freud had not anticipated—it went on to become a practice that moved beyond the vicissitudes of desire to cultivate the growth and spiritual aspirations of the individual as a whole.

Putnam Camp reveals details of Putnam's and Freud's personal lives that have never been fully explored before, including the crucial role Putnam's muse, Susan Blow—founder of America's first kindergarten, pioneering educator and philosopher in the American Hegelian movement—played in the intense debate between these two great thinkers.

As the great-grandson of Putnam, author George Prochnik had access to a wealth of personal firsthand material from the Putnam family—as well as from the James and Emerson families—all of which contribute to a new and intimate vision of the texture of daily life at a moment when America was undergoing a cultural and intellectual renaissance.

Apart from Freud: Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis

Apart from Freud: Notes for a Rational Psychoanalysis Review

Diverging from vituperative debates between the "Freud bashers" and the orthodox Freudians, this critique of psychoanalysis examines Freud’s background assumptions in biology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and moral and social philosophy in order to develop an alternative practice that challenges authoritarian traditions and fosters individual freedom and responsible action in the world.