Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question

Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question Review

What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?

These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question. In his final book, Moses and Monotheism, Freud hinted at the complexities of Jewishness and insisted that Moses was really an Egyptian. Slavet moves far beyond debates about how Freud felt about Judaism; instead, she explores what he wrote about Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has survived. Freud’s Moses emerges as the culmination of his work on transference, telepathy, and intergenerational transmission, and on the relationships between memory and its rivals: history, heredity, and fantasy. Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance of ancestral memories; thus, regardless of any attempts to repress, suppress, or repudiate Jewishness, Jews will remain Jewish and Judaism will survive.

The Best Man That Ever Was

The Best Man That Ever Was Review

Given its imaginative risk and experimental daring, perhaps the most remarkable thing about Annie Freud's poetry is its effortless success: these wise, funny, sly, erotic and lightning-witted poems all find their marks with unerring accuracy. From the disturbing dramatic monologue of the title poem, through love poems of great worldly tenderness, to a soliloquy from the inventor of the individual fruit pie the reader is both challenged and entertained from first to last. The Best Man That Ever Was announces one of the most startlingly original poets to have emerged in recent years.

A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud And the Ancient World (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)

A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud And the Ancient World (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) Review

"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearing the telltale traces of the ancient archive, then would not our growing distance from the archive of antiquity also imply that we are in the process of losing our grip on psychoanalysis itself, as Freud conceived it?"—from Chapter 1

As he developed his striking new science of the mind, Sigmund Freud had frequent recourse to ancient culture and the historical disciplines that draw on it. A Compulsion for Antiquity fully explores how Freud appropriated figures and themes from classical mythology and how the theory and practice of psychoanalysis paralleled contemporary developments in historiography, archaeology, philology, and the history of religions. Drawing extensively from Freud’s private correspondence and other notes and documents, Richard H. Armstrong touches on Freud’s indebtedness to Sophocles and the Oedipus complex, his interest in Moses and the Jewish religion, and his travels to Athens and Rome.

Armstrong shows how Freud turned to the ancient world to deal with the challenges posed by his own scientific ambitions and how these lessons influenced the way he handled psychic "evidence" and formulated the universal application of what were initially isolated clinical truths. Freud’s narrative reconstructions of the past also related to his sense of Jewishness, linking the historical trajectory of psychoanalysis with contemporary central European Jewish culture. Ranging across the breadth of Freud’s work, A Compulsion for Antiquity offers fresh insights into the roots of psychoanalysis and fin de siècle European culture, and makes an important contribution to the burgeoning discipline of mnemohistory.

The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays

The Blind Man Sees: Freud's Awakening and Other Essays Review

The papers in this book have been written over a period of fifteen years and tackle various subjects within psychoanalysis. The main theme to arise from these writings, and the central argument in this latest work from the eminent psychoanalyst Neville Symington, is the similarity between psychoanalysis and religion. Symington argues that psychoanalysis can be seen as a scientific religion with Freud as the leader of the movement. He examines the various stages of the journey made by a religious leader from "blindness" to "founding an institution" and finds counterparts in the development of psychoanalysis while drawing examples from Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
Symington invites the reader on a journey with him - to examine the human mind, our society, the process of psychoanalysis, science and philosophy. He successfully uses examples from the consulting room to illuminate his arguments. Symington’s honest accounts of the search for answers relevant to all of us encourage the reader to think further and deeper than he or she had intended.

"The psychoanalyst examines scientifically the emotional pattern in himself and the other. He can only do this to the extent to which he is self-aware. As what is he is exercising is the inner pattern of his and the other’s relationship, then, according to my definition, what he is engaged in is a religious activity. As he is doing it in an orderly way about a determinate subject-matter, he is acting as a scientist. Hence my claim that psychoanalysis is a scientific religion." -- Neville Symington from the Introduction

Understanding Freud: The Unconscious Mind (Understanding Western Philosophy)

Understanding Freud: The Unconscious Mind (Understanding Western Philosophy) Review

A concise, essay length guide to Freud's theory of the unconscious mind as outlined in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Topics covered include the role the unconscious plays in 'parapraxes', the dream-works, neurotic diseases and symptoms, and it's central part in psychoanalysis.

The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939

The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939 Review

Soon after their first meeting in 1908, Freud's future biographer, Ernest Jones, initiated a correspondence with the founder of psychoanalysis that would continue until Freud's death in London in 1939. This volume makes available from British and American archives nearly seven hundred previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams from the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his admiring younger colleague.

The Wolfman and Other Cases (Penguin Classics)

The Wolfman and Other Cases (Penguin Classics) Review

When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses-most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window-eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma. It took more than four years to treat him, and "The Wolfman" became one of Freud's most famous cases. This volume also contains the case histories of a boy's fear of horses and the Ratman's violent fear of rats, as well as the essay "Some Character Types," in which Freud draws on the work of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Nietzsche to demonstrate different kinds of resistance to therapy. Above all, the case histories show us Freud at work, in his own words.

Translated by Louise Adey Huish.
Introduction by Gillian Beer.

The Origins Of Psycho-Analysis: Letters To Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts And Notes, 1887-1902

The Origins Of Psycho-Analysis: Letters To Wilhelm Fliess, Drafts And Notes, 1887-1902 Review

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.

Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci. Review

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How Freud Worked

How Freud Worked Review

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Love Falls: A Novel (P.S.)

Love Falls: A Novel (P.S.) Review

From the author of Hideous Kinky comes a charming, surprising, and utterly irresistible tale of adolescent love and self-discovery.

When seventeen-year-old Lara accepts her father's invitation to accom­pany him to a Tuscan villa for the summer, she's both thrilled and nervous for the exotic holiday. To her delight, she soon discovers that the villa's closest neighbors are the glamorous Willoughbys, the teenaged brood of a British millionaire. Caught up in their torrential thirst for amusement—and snared by Kip Willoughby's dark, flirtatious eyes—Lara sets off on a summer adven­ture full of danger, first love, and untold consequen­ces that will irrevocably change her life.

Language and Its Disturbances in Dreams: The Pioneering Work of Freud and Kraepelin Updated

Language and Its Disturbances in Dreams: The Pioneering Work of Freud and Kraepelin Updated Review

This treatise presents and contrasts Freud's and Kraepelin's interpretations of dream speech - the verbal content of dreams. Also included is a reassessment of dream speech in the light of modern linguistic theories and recent models of the dream state.

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 on Course

Freud on Course Review

'At my Devon school, lessons were optional and I did not go to a lot. A friend's father took us to Buckfastleigh racecourse where there were bookmakers and tic-tac men, Tote windows and people asking each other what they knew (at school, people only told you what you did not know). I became hooked'. Sir Clement Freud was a man of many parts, but his devotion to racing and betting had been lifelong and unwavering. He owned several racehorses, one of whom was named Weareagrandmother after Margaret Thatcher's announcement of the birth of her first grandchild. As well as riding in several races he was a fearless punter, winning a fortune after backing himself to win the 1973 Ely by-election at 33-1. His racing journalism is characterised by a wit and understanding unmatched by any other writer. This book brings together the very best of Freud on racing - which is, in effect, the very best of Clement Freud.

Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism

Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism Review

Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud's psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. This is a systematic investigation of the development of Freud's treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and it discovers in those writings a broad theory that is far superior to the narrow but widely accepted "official" view. Agnes Petocz argues that the treatment of symbolism must begin with the identification and clarification of a set of logical constraints and psychological requirements that any general theory of symbolism must respect, and that these requirements have been neglected. Her newly proposed "Freudian broad" theory of symbolism, by contrast, does meet these requirements.

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Penguin Classics)

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Penguin Classics) Review

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.

Translated by Joyce Crick.
Introduction by John Carey.

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Psychopathology of Everyday Life Review

Authorized English Edition with introduction by A. A. Brill, PH.B., M.D. This is the Ninth Printing July 1964 from the original First Printing of 1951. This fascinating analysis of the unconscious motives behind everyday actions offers new insight into human behavior.