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- Herausgeber: Pocket Essentials
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. Even those who have never read a word of his writings are familiar with his concepts of the id, the ego, the Oedipus complex and the workings of the unconscious mind. This looks at Freud's life from his birth in the small Moravian town of Freiburg in 1856 to his death in Hampstead in 1939. Each of Freud's major works is summarised and his central ideas explored. Controversies over his methods and practices are examined. Did he, as some recent critics have alleged, turn his back on evidence of genuine child abuse in 1890s Vienna and prefer instead to ascribe it to fantasy and wish fulfilment? What were the reasons behind his terrible quarrel with Carl Gustav Jung? Does his 'talking cure' of psychoanalysis actually work? The essential information about Freud's enormously productive life and career is all here.
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FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. Even those who have never read a word of his writings are familiar with his concepts of the id, the ego, the Oedipus complex and the workings of the unconscious mind.This looks at Freud's life from his birth in the small Moravian town of Freiburg in 1856 to his death in Hampstead in 1939. Each of Freud's major works is summarised and his central ideas explored. Controversies over his methods and practices are examined. Did he, as some recent critics have alleged, turn his back on evidence of genuine child abuse in 1890s Vienna and prefer instead to ascribe it to fantasy and wish fulfilment? What were the reasons behind his terrible quarrel with Carl Gustav Jung? Does his 'talking cure' of psychoanalysis actually work? The essential information about Freud's enormously productive life and career is all here.
NICK RENNISON
Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several Pocket Essential guides published by Oldcastle Books including Short History of the Polar Exploration, Roget, Freud and Robin Hood. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His debut crime novel, Carver’s Quest, set in nineteenth century London, was published by Atlantic Books. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.
The Pocket Essential
FREUD and PSYCHOANALYSIS
NICK RENNISON
CONTENTS
Chapter One: Freud’s Life .............................................
Early Life; Cocaine and Charcot; Marriage and Hysteria; The Emergence of Psychoanalysis;The Wednesday Group and Early Converts
America and the Break with Jung; War and Tragedy; Illness and World Fame; The Last Years
Chapter Two: Freud’s Ideas.........................................
The Conscious and the Unconscious Mind; Sexual Development; The Structure of the Mind; Culture and Society
Chapter Three: Freud’s Major Works .........................
Studies on Hysteria; The Interpretation of Dreams; The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Three Essays on Sexuality;
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; Totem and Taboo; Mourning and Melancholia; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis;
Beyond the Pleasure Principle; The Future of an Illusion; Civilisation and Its Discontents; Moses and Monotheism
Chapter Four: Freud’s Case Histories........................
Anna O.;‘Dora’; Little Hans; The Rat Man; Schreber; The Wolf Man
Chapter Five: Freud’s Family, Friends And Fellow Early Analysts .......................................
Karl Abraham; Alfred Adler; Minna Bernays; Josef Breuer; Sandor Ferenczi; Wilhelm Fliess; Anna Freud; Martha Freud; Otto Gross
Ernest Jones; Carl Gustav Jung; Otto Rank; Wilhelm Reich; Wilhelm Stekel
Chapter Six: Freud’s Legacy .......................................
Chapter Seven: A Short Glossary Of Freudian Ideas And Concepts.....................................
Further Resources .......................................................
Chapter One: Freud’s Life
Early Life
Sigmund Freud was born on the 6thMay 1856 in the small country town of Freiberg, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Moravian town of Pribor in the Czech Republic. He was the eldest son of Jacob Freud, a relatively unsuccessful and unprosperous Jewish merchant, and Jacob’s second wife, Amalia who had married the previous year. Amalia was twenty years younger than her husband and Jacob had two adult sons from a previous marriage who were much the same age as their stepmother. Freud’s earliest playmates included the children of one of these sons, Emanuel. That uncle, nephew and niece were roughly contemporaries, as were Freud’s mother and his two older half-brothers, must have caused generational (and, possibly, sexual) confusion in the young Freud’s mind and biographers have felt free to speculate on the influence this may have had on his future interest in childhood sexuality and its effects on adult life. In an age, however, when many women died young in childbirth and many widowers married second wives much younger than themselves, the Freud household’s complex interrelationships would not have been significantly uncommon.
A year after Sigmund’s arrival in the world, Amalia Freud gave birth to another boy, who was named Julius, but he died when only a few months old. In 1858 a sister Anna was born and she was followed at almost yearly intervals by four more girls. Alexander, Freud’s youngest sibling, was born in 1866. Sigmund, the talented oldest sibling, was to grow up surrounded by adoring and admiring females, convinced of his special genius. Most important of these was, of course, his mother who lavished her attention on her firstborn and was his earliest teacher. In later life, Freud wrote, ‘A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.’ It is clear that when he wrote this he was thinking of his own position as his mother’s golden boy.
The Freud family, in the late 1850s, was not thriving in Freiberg. In 1859 Freud’s parents considered moving and travelled briefly to Leipzig to assess the potential of that city. Jacob’s sons from his first marriage uprooted themselves and their families and moved to England. In 1860 Jacob made the less dramatic decision to move to Vienna, the imperial capital. It was to remain Freud’s home until the Nazis drove him into exile in London in 1938.
In 1865 Freud, hitherto taught at home and at a private school, was enrolled at the Leopoldstadter Realgymnasium. In the eight years he attended the school he proved himself a star pupil, showing a gift for both languages and sciences, and regularly emerging top of his class. The promise of greatness that his parents, particularly his mother, had always detected in him was given full encouragement. Although the family remained relatively impoverished, and lived in restricted circumstances, Sigmund always had his own room for study and nothing was allowed to stand in the way of his academic progress. On one well-known occasion, which reflects less well on the budding genius than the early biographers who recorded it seem to have thought, Freud complained about the piano-playing of one of his sisters, which was disturbing his concentration. The piano was removed.
