1st Edition

Encountering Freud The Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis

By Paul Roazen Copyright 1990
340 Pages
by Routledge

339 Pages
by Routledge

339 Pages
by Routledge

In this volume Paul Roazen examines different national responses to Freud and the beginnings of psychoanalysis. He examines Freud's work in the contexts of law, society, and class, as well as other forms of psychology. Encountering Freud includes a brilliant essay on Freud and the question of psychoanalysis' contribution to radical thought, in contrast to the conservative tradition. Roazen... Read more

Contents

Introduction

1 The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
2 The Old World
3 America
4 Letter Writing
5 Insanity and the Law
6 The Tausk Problem
7 Marxism
8 Ego Psychology
9 Biography
10 Brief Lives
11 Heretics
12 Loyalism
13 Political Psychology
14 Psychohistory
15 Sages

Conclusion
A Bibliography of Paul Roazen
Index

Biography

Paul Roazen