1st Edition

Freud, V.1 Appraisals and Reappraisals

Edited By Paul E. Stepansky Copyright 1986
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

A response to the veritable renaissance in Freud studies, Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals presents the readers with the fruits of recent scholarship on Freud, the man and scientist, and the origins and development of the psychoanalytic movement spawned by his work.  The premier volume of this series offers three major essays embodying different tributaries of contemporary Freud... Read more
1. Freud, His Teacher, and the Birth of Psychoanalysis, Swales  2. Freud as Ethicist, Wallace  3. "Now Comes a Sad Story": Freud's Lost Metapsychological Papers, Silverstein  4. The Oral Tradition, Freud, and Psychoanalytic Writing, Mahony  5. Feuerbach and Jung as Religious Critics - With a Note on Freud's Psychology of Religion, Stepansky  6. On the Origins of the Theban Plague: Assessments of Sigmund Freud's Character, Gedo

Biography

Paul E. Stepansky received his doctorate in European intellectual history from Yale University, where he was named the first Kanzer Foundation Fellow for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities.  One of the foremost psychoanalytic editors in the country, he served as the Managing Director of Analytic Press until 2006.  He is the author of numerous books on Sigmund Freud as well as The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler

"The overall introduction to the volume and series is excellent. The six essays are rich and often timely. They range across a large spectrum of studies of Freud and vary in focus, method, and purpose."

- Robert Sollod, Contemporary Psychology

Four of the six contributors to the present volume are from disciplines other than psychoanalysis and medicine. May their tribe increase; they breathe new life into the study of Freud. . . . the research appears to be impeccable in every case and the quality of writing throughout no doubt owes much to Dr. Stepansky's careful editing."

- Judith Aronson, International Review of Psychoanalysis