Freud
eBook - PDF

Freud

An Intellectual Biography

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Freud

An Intellectual Biography

About this book

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural theory, and more. Offering a radically new portrait of the creator of psychoanalysis, this book explores the man in all his complexity alongside an interpretation of his theories that cuts through the stereotypes that surround him. The development of Freud's thinking is addressed not only in the context of his personal life, but also in that of society and culture at large, while the impact of his thinking on subsequent issues of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory is fully examined. Whitebook demonstrates that declarations of Freud's obsolescence are premature, and, with his clear and engaging style, brings this vivid figure to life in compelling and readable fashion.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Imprints Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Wandering Jews: From Galicia to Vienna
  11. 2 Freud’s Bildung
  12. 3 Science as Vocation
  13. 4 Starting Out in Vienna
  14. 5 A Theoretical Excursus
  15. 6 “Dear Magician”
  16. 7 Becoming the First Psychoanalyst
  17. 8 Jung and the Counter-Enlightenment
  18. 9 Exorcising the “Odium Jungian”
  19. 10 “What Is Painful May None the Less Be Real”: Loss, Mourning, and Ananke
  20. 11 Making Sense of the Death Instinct
  21. 12 Leaving Heaven to the Angels and the Sparrows: Freud’s Critique of Religion
  22. 13 Late Freud and the Early Mother
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index