Freud in Cambridge

John Forrester, Laura Cameron

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780521861908
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316849491
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Technology & Engineering Research & Skills
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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.

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