Sunday, July 31, 2011

Sigmund Freud: Webster's Timeline History, 1837 - 2007

Sigmund Freud: Webster's Timeline History, 1837 - 2007 Review



Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Sigmund Freud," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Sigmund Freud in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Sigmund Freud when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Sigmund Freud, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.


Friday, July 29, 2011

Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision

Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision Review



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Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD
"Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR,
Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human weaknesses and the professional triumphs of its founder. . . . Cutting away the accretions of fabrication and romance cloaking Sigmund Freud, Breger has reinstated historical honesty to its rightful, high place, but the figure who emerges at the end of this breathlessly honest biography is quite as extraordinary as the legend concocted by Freud and perpetuated by his followers. Fresh, vigorous, and lucid."-PHILIP M. BROMBERG, Ph.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
"Louis Breger's fine new biography of Freud is a welcome contribution to the existing literature and a corrective to much of it. It is also one of the best intellectual histories of the origin and development of psychoanalysis I have read in recent years. Breger is to be commended for his original research, the objectivity of his views, and the elegance and grace of his writing."-DEIRDRE BAIR, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR Samuel Beckett AND AUTHOR OF A FORTHCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF CARL JUNG
"Finally, the Freud biography we have long been waiting for. With the history of Europe in the background, we follow with fascination Freud's journey from an impoverished childhood filled with losses to worldly fame, ending in exile in England. We come to understand the impact of Freud's difficult personality on the development of his brilliant as well as questionable theoretical ideas. Breger writes with compassion and fairness toward Freud as well as toward the many interesting personalities who cross his life, with their complicated relationships to the great man."-SOPHIE FREUD, FREUD'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIAL WORK, SIMMONS COLLEGE
"Louis Breger's magnificent book is the definitive work on the personal psychology of Sigmund Freud. it brilliantly illuminates how the darkness in Freud's vision has affected psychoanalytic history. This book will be central for psychoanalytic scholarship for decades to come."-GEORGE E. ATWOOD, Ph.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY


Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis

The Other Freud: Religion, Culture and Psychoanalysis Review



The Other Freud undertakes an exciting and original analysis of Freud's major writings on religion and culture. It is a seminal work: free of jargon, and rich with new ideas and fresh interpretations.


Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Storms in Her Head: Freud and the Construction of Hysteria

Storms in Her Head: Freud and the Construction of Hysteria Review



It was through his early encounters with women in distress that Freud began to develop radically new understandings of symptoms and the relationship between doctor and patient. A century after it was written as a founding document of psychoanalysis, Breuer's and Freud's Studies on Hysteria still challenges us with questions about the location of psychic pain in the body and about the role of culture in the ways that such pain is located, understood, and treated.

In this volume, many of today's most renowned psychoanalysts and cultural theorists come together to reread these case reports with modern eyes. They reflect on how six women, different in character and social situation yet alike in their experience of suffering, continue to engage us with problems of theory and practice: the workings of analytic authority and power; the changing definitions of sexuality, gender roles, and psychopathology; the self-experience of women in the patriarchal settings of culture and classical psychoanalysis; the controversies over sexual abuse and the effects of trauma; the recognition of homosexuality and bisexuality; the role of speech and its relation to the experience of the body; the modes of listening and responding to the patient that relieve psychic pain or perpetuate it, and the ways in which the treatment process offers the possibility of change not only to the patient but also to the analyst and to psychoanalysis itself.


Sunday, July 24, 2011

Writings on Art and Literature (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

Writings on Art and Literature (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Review



Despite Freud’s enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907 “Delusion and Dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva” and concluding with the 1940 posthumous publication of “Medusa’s Head.” Many of the essays included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary literary and art criticism and theory.

Among the subjects Freud engages are Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and Macbeth, Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit, Michelangelo’s Moses, E. T. A. Hoffman’s “The Sand Man,” Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, fairy tales, the effect of and the meaning of beauty, mythology, and the games of aestheticization. All texts are drawn from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by James Strachey. The volume includes the notes prepared for that edition by the editor.

In addition to the writings on Jensen’s Gradiva and Medusa, the essays are: “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage,” “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words,” “The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales,” “The Theme of the Three Caskets,” “The Moses of Michelangelo,” “Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-analytic Work,” “On Transience,” “A Mythological Parallel to a Visual Obsession,” “A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit,”“The Uncanny,” “Dostoevsky and Parricide,” and “The Goethe Prize.”


Saturday, July 23, 2011

Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature

Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children's Literature Review



Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, children’s literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his first case studies.

In Freud in Oz, Kidd shows how psychoanalysis developed in part through its engagement with children’s literature, which it used to articulate and dramatize its themes and methods, turning first to folklore and fairy tales, then to materials from psychoanalysis of children, and thence to children’s literary texts, especially such classic fantasies as Peter Pan and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He traces how children’s literature, and critical response to it, aided the popularization of psychoanalytic theory. With increasing acceptance of psychoanalysis came two new genres of children’s literature—known today as picture books and young adult novels—that were frequently fashioned as psychological in their forms and functions.

Freud in Oz offers a history of reigning theories in the study of children’s literature and psychoanalysis, providing fresh insights on a diversity of topics, including the view that Maurice Sendak and Bruno Bettelheim can be thought of as rivals, that Sendak’s makeover of monstrosity helped lead to the likes of the Muppets, and that “Poohology” is its own kind of literary criticism—serving up Winnie the Pooh as the poster bear for theorists of widely varying stripes.


Friday, July 22, 2011

La Interpretacion de Los Suenos (Spanish Edition)

La Interpretacion de Los Suenos (Spanish Edition) Review



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Contamos con mas volúmenes en español que cualquier otra editorial para el kindle y continuamos creciendo.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

Freud: His Dream and Sex Theories

Freud: His Dream and Sex Theories Review



Freud: His Dream and Sex Theories Repressed Desires/The Stuff of Dreams/ The Superego Sexualized Personality and other theories of Sigmund Freud analyzed by the Famous American Psychologist Joseph Jastrow/Original title: The House That Freud Built Published by Pocket Books copyright 1932, renewed 1960, 9th printing March 1969


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy and Culture

The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy and Culture Review



The first in-depth Encyclopedia on the life, work, and theories of Sigmund Freud, this A-Z reference includes the most recent debates on such topics as the theory of dreams and the Oedipus complex, as well as biographical sketches of leading figures in the Freudian movement. Coverage also includes philosophers who anticipated or influenced Freud, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and the many movements influenced by his work, from the early twentieth-century Surrealists to the present day.


Monday, July 18, 2011

Mass Psychology (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts)

Mass Psychology (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts) Review



Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In "Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I'" he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as "A Religious Experience" and "The Future of an Illusion" continue earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and "Moses the Man" and "Monotheistic Religion" excavates the roots of religion and racism, which he concludes are inextricably intertwined. This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only at his most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personally courageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents, his own identity.


Sunday, July 17, 2011

Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research

Children's Dreams: From Freud's Observations to Modern Dream Research Review



This book presents a study on the actuality and the empirical value of the Freudian dream theory through the analysis of a specific part of it: children’s dreams. It sets out to demonstrate that the Freudian dream theory shows systematic properties that allow it empirical control. The book also describes the results of four systematic studies that the author has conducted in the space of a decade and present a first empirical judgement on the main hypotheses formulated by Freud. The results of the studies being consistent with Ferud’s observations.

In the first part a systematic description of Freud’s observations on child dreams is given, and the issue of the supposed empirical uncontrollability of the Freudian model is analyzed and rejected. The second part studies the relationship between dream bizarreness and the development of the superego functions with results consistent with Freud’s observations. Despite the results of the first study, both studies on childrens’ dreams presented in this book show that Freud’s hypotheses can be submitted to a systematic test and that this control is relevant for the purposes of an empirical judgement on certain more general theses of the Freudian dream model.

The work suggests that the psychoanalytic model of dreams gives way to predictions that have a statistical significance and show a good scientific and heuristic value. The result of these studies have implications for many areas of dream research, particularly the issue of dream bizarreness, the motivational bases of dreams and their individual significance.


Thursday, July 14, 2011

Sigmund Freud Doctor of the Mind

Sigmund Freud Doctor of the Mind Review



A brief biography of the Austrian doctor who spent his life analyzing the mind and its illnesses.


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Reflections On War and Death

Reflections On War and Death Review



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Monday, July 11, 2011

The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida (Cambridge Studies in French)

The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida (Cambridge Studies in French) Review



The Seductions of Psychoanalysis reflects on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. John Forrester probes the origins of psychoanalysis and its most beguiling concept, the transference, which is at once its institutional axis and experimental core. He explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida. Other key questions addressed include the significance of speech in the talking cure, and the relationship between the 'real' of psychoanalysis and the fictionality of the 'truth' it offers. Dr Forrester also focuses on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the feminine, on analysis and gossip, on the borderline of seduction and rape, and on the women who have played such a crucial role in the history of psychoanalysis, as patients, analysts or both.


Saturday, July 9, 2011

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Broadview Editions)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Broadview Editions) Review



Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud's most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of the "repetition compulsion" and the "death drive," according to which a perverse, repetitive, self-destructive impulse opposes and even trumps the creative drive, or Eros. The work is one of Freud's most intensely debated, and raises important questions that have been discussed by philosophers and psychoanalysts since its first publication in 1920. The text is presented here in a contemporary new translation by Gregory C. Richter. Appendices trace the work's antecedents and the many responses to it, including texts by Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Melanie Klein, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, among many others.


Friday, July 8, 2011

The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams Review



Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams translated by James Strachey


Thursday, July 7, 2011

Electra After Freud: Myth And Culture (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)

Electra After Freud: Myth And Culture (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) Review



"Electra’s story is essentially a tale of murder, revenge, and violence. In the ancient myth of Atreus, Agamemnon returns home from battle and receives no hero’s welcome. Instead, he is greeted with an ax, murdered in his bath by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover-accomplice, Aegisthus. Electra chooses anger over sorrow and stops at nothing to ensure that her mother pays. In revenge, Electra, with the help of her brother, orchestrates a brutal and bloody matricide, and her reward is the restitution of her father’s good name. Amid all this chaos, Electra, Agamemnon’s princess daughter, must bear the humiliation of being treated as a slave girl and labeled a madwoman."
—from the Introduction

Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughter. Through a lens of Freudian and feminist psychoanalysis, this book views renderings of the Electra myth in twentieth-century literature and culture.

Scott reads several pivotal texts featuring Electra to demonstrate what she calls "a narrative revolt" against the dominance of Oedipus as archetype. Situating the Electra myth within a framework of psychoanalysis, medicine, opera, and dance, Scott investigates the heroine’s role at the intersections of history and the feminine, eros and thanatos, hysteria and melancholia. Scott analyzes Electra adaptations by H.D., Hofmannsthal and Strauss, Musil, and Plath and highlights key moments in the telling and reception of the Electra myth in the modern imagination.