Freud. A Life for Our Time. Von Peter Gay.

XX; 810 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm. Gutes Ex.; Umschl. gering berieben. - Englisch. - Standardwerk. - To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful and embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling with his disciples. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled and sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna through Europe, across the ocean to the United States—and the world. Drawing on a vast instructive store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers Freud's passions, and follows Freud's astonishing career. He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. He discloses for the first time the dimensions of Freud's love for his daughter Anna, and his unorthodox analysis of her. He offers a thoughtful, detailed, fascinating account of Freud's relations with such problematic followers as Jung and Ferenczi. He deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life. and his theoretical innovations, which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. ... (Verlagstext) / INHALT : ... Psychoanalytic Politics --- JUNG: THE CROWN PRINCE --- AMERICAN INTERLUDE --- VIENNA VERSUS ZURICH --- JUNG: THE ENEMY --- Therapy and Technique --- A PROBLEMATIC DEBUT --- TWO CLASSIC LESSONS --- IN HIS OWN CAUSE: LEONARDO, SCHREBER, FLIESS --- IN HIS OWN CAUSE: THE POLITICS OF THE WOLF MAN --- A HANDBOOK FOR TECHNICIANS --- Applications and Implications --- MATTERS OF TASTE ---- FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY --- MAPPING THE MIND ---- THE END OF EUROPE --- REVISIONS: 1915-1939 --- Aggressions --- COMPREHENSIVE AND MOMENTOUS THINGS --- UNEASY PEACE --- DEATH: EXPERIENCE AND THEORY --- EROS, EGO, AND THEIR ENEMIES ---- Death against Life --- INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY --- ANNA --- THE PRICE OF POPULARITY --- VITALITY: THE BERLIN SPIRIT --- Flickering Lights on Dark Continents --- RANK AND THE CONSEQUENCES --- DOCTORS' DILEMMAS --- WOMAN, THE DARK CONTINENT --- Human Nature at Work --- AGAINST ILLUSIONS --- CIVILIZATION: THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT THE UGLY AMERICANS --- TROPHIES AND OBITUARIES --- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0393025179

Sigmund Freud