Freud in Cambridge
About this book
Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold, buried under different accounts of the dissemination of psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind, sexuality and the unconscious affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G. Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell, Bernal, Strachey and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of disciplines, from biology to anthropology, and from philosophy to psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Tansley’s Dream
- Chapter 3 W.H.R. Rivers, the English Freud
- Chapter 4 Becoming Freudian in Cambridge: Undergraduates and Psychoanalysis
- Chapter 5 Discipline Formation – Psychology, English, Philosophy
- Chapter 6 The 1925 Group
- Chapter 7 The Malting House Garden School
- Chapter 8 A Psychoanalytic Debate in 1925
- Chapter 9 Bloomsbury Analysts
- Chapter 10 Freud in Cambridge?
- Bibliography
- Index
