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Darkness in the Midst of Vision by Louis Breger - Inscribed - 1st Ed 1st Print
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- Signed By
- Louis Breger
- Publication Name
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Signed
- Yes
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Inscribed Signed
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780471316282
- Book Title
- Freud : Darkness in the Midst of Vision
- Item Length
- 9.7 in
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Social Scientists & Psychologists, General
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 30.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD "Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR, Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human weaknesses and the professional triumphs of its founder. . . . Cutting away the accretions of fabrication and romance cloaking Sigmund Freud, Breger has reinstated historical honesty to its rightful, high place, but the figure who emerges at the end of this breathlessly honest biography is quite as extraordinary as the legend concocted by Freud and perpetuated by his followers. Fresh, vigorous, and lucid."-PHILIP M. BROMBERG, Ph.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY "Louis Breger's fine new biography of Freud is a welcome contribution to the existing literature and a corrective to much of it. It is also one of the best intellectual histories of the origin and development of psychoanalysis I have read in recent years. Breger is to be commended for his original research, the objectivity of his views, and the elegance and grace of his writing."-DEIRDRE BAIR, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR Samuel Beckett AND AUTHOR OF A FORTHCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF CARL JUNG "Finally, the Freud biography we have long been waiting for. With the history of Europe in the background, we follow with fascination Freud's journey from an impoverished childhood filled with losses to worldly fame, ending in exile in England. We come to understand the impact of Freud's difficult personality on the development of his brilliant as well as questionable theoretical ideas. Breger writes with compassion and fairness toward Freud as well as toward the many interesting personalities who cross his life, with their complicated relationships to the great man."-SOPHIE FREUD, FREUD'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIAL WORK, SIMMONS COLLEGE "Louis Breger's magnificent book is the definitive work on the personal psychology of Sigmund Freud. it brilliantly illuminates how the darkness in Freud's vision has affected psychoanalytic history. This book will be central for psychoanalytic scholarship for decades to come."-GEORGE E. ATWOOD, Ph.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0471316288
ISBN-13
9780471316282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1655051
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freud : Darkness in the Midst of Vision
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Social Scientists & Psychologists, General
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
30.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Bf109.F74b74 2000
Reviews
"Psychoanalysis is a clumsy tool, not the scalpel Freud envisioned. In this masterly biography and cultural history, psychologist and psychoanalyst Breger (emeritus, California Institute of Technology) explains why. Previous Freud biographers Ernest Jones, Paul Roazen, Ronald Clark, and Peter Gay lack his combined clinical acumen and objectivity. Breger interprets carefully, guiding the reader through an oft-told story that has never been made so human. 'Sigi,' though his mother's favorite, was emotionally starved as a youngster and could not deal with this pain in his creatively evasive self-analysis. His professional frustrations were not caused by Viennese conservatism, but by his own way of thinking, working, and treating people. Breger movingly portrays the Great War, Freud's initial enthusiasm for it, his inability to grasp the nature of real trauma, and the resulting death instinct theory. Essential for all public and academic libraries, this landmark work conveys a new sense of one of the great, flawed men and movements of the last century."(Library Journal, Starred Review) "Persuasive... the best part of Breger's book -- his revisiting of the early authoritarian days of psychoanalysis -- is a foray into the past that matters a great deal. An important contribution" (The New York Times Book Review, December 17th, 2000) "Breger brings out all the contradictions and ends up with a fascinating and well-balanced book." (Focus, February 2001) "...a perceptive, measured account of Freud's work..." (Irish Times, 9th December 2000) "Breger's sane and lucid study must henceforth count among the indispensable books on Freud." (Times Literary Supplement, 27th October 2000) "This is an absorbing book..." (Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, Vol.43, No.4 2002)
Table of Content
Acknowledgments.Introduction: "The Development of the Hero."PART ONE: FREUD'S LIFE: THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS.A Traumatic Infancy.Childhood and Adolescence.The Early Adult Years: Searching for an Identity.Opening Up: Martha, Cocaine, Fleischl.Jean-Martin Charcot: "The Napoléon of Neuroses."Martha: "The Loss on an Illusion."PART TWO: THE BIRTH OF PSYCHOANALYSIS.Josef Breuer and the Invention of Psychotherapy.Breuer, Freud, and the Studies on Hysteria: 1886-1895.The Break with Breuer.Self-Analysis and the Invention of the Oedipus Complex.The Interpretation of Dreams and the End of the Fliess Affair.The Great Freud Emerges: 1899-1905.PART THREE: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT: 1902-1939.The Psychoanalytic Movement: Images of War.Alfred Adler: The First Dissident.The King and His Knights: The Committee.Carl Gustav Jung: The Favorite Son Expelled.The First World War.Trauma Revisited: The Neuroses of War.Freud at Work: The Postwar Years.Freud at Home.Anna Freud: The Perfect Disciple.Otto Rank: "I Was In Deepest of All.""What Does a Woman Want?"Sándor Ferenczi: The Wise Baby.The Final Years.Appendix: Psychoanalysis Interminable: Freud as a Therapist.Background and Sources.Notes.Bibliography.Credits.Index.
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
99-059994
Dewey Decimal
150.19/52/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
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