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Questions for Freud

The Secret History of Psychoanalysis
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2000

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The authors develop a new biographical and conceptual approach to psychoanalysis, one that outlines Freud’s contradictory theories of mental functioning against the backdrop of his permanent lack of insight into crucial and traumatic aspects of his immediate family’s life.

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Makes for a lively and challenging read.
-- Paul Roazen Toronto Globe and Mail

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments

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    Abbreviations

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    Introduction: Why Question Freud?

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  • III Fundamental Contradictions of Freudian Thought
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    1. Dream Interpretation: Free Association or Universal Symbolism?

    9
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    2. The Concept of Psychical Reality and Its Traps

    24
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  • III Psychoanalysis in the Eye of Literature
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    3. Applied Psychoanalysis in Question

    47
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    4. A Case Study in Literary Psychoanalysis: Jensen’s Gradiva

    54
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    5. The Distortions of Psychoanalysis: Freud versus Jensen

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  • III Transmissions of Psychoanalysis
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    6. Censorship and Secrets in the Historical Topography of Psychoanalysis

    97
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    7. The Setbacks of Catharsis: Emmy von N.

    108
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    8. Neutralizing Constructive Criticism: Freud Faced with Ferenczi’s Research on Trauma

    115
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  • IV Gaining Insight into Freud
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    9. Methodological Issues

    139
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    10. The Freud Family’s Disaster Seen through the Original Documents

    145
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    11. Freud’s Self-Analysis and the Field of Biographical Studies

    156
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    12. Freud’s Dreams: Witnesses to His Family Disaster

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    13. The Secret of Psychoanalysis

    219
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    Conclusion

    223
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    Notes

    227
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    Index

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