1st Edition

Freud's Student Years A Psychobiography

By Florian Houssier Copyright 2025
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

In Freud’s Student Years , Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from his eighteenth birthday to his clinical practice, showing how these experiences informed his later theories.   Following on from Freud’s Adolescence: Oedipus Complex and Parricidal Tendencies (2023) and starting at the point of the young Freud’s graduation,... Read more

Introduction  1. Student Life  2. The search for paternal figures  3. Martha, a change of love-object

4. Retroactive explorations: Freud and his sons  5. The infantile as a screen against puberty

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Biography

Florian Houssier is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst (Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne). He is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology at the Sorbonne, France; Director of the Laboratory Transversal Unit of Research: Psychogenesis and Psychopathology (UTRPP); and President of the Collège International de L'Adolescence (CILA).