Freud and Psychoanalysis

Six Introductory Lectures

John Forrester, Lisa Appignanesi

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Polity Press
18 July 2023

Psychology; History of science

John Forrester’s passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range and lucidity bring the evolution of Freud’s thinking and the nature of Freud’s discoveries into sharp focus. With an historian’s eye for context, Forrester explores Freud’s biography, the scientific moment, the radical subject matter of the field itself – sex, dreams, desire, the unconscious, childhood, language – as well as Freud’s development of a new clinical practice.

Forrester also explores both the growth of the psychoanalytic movement and the question of what kind of beast it might be as it travels through time and geography. He illuminates the cultural and revolutionary impact of psychoanalytic thinking – not only Freud’s, but that of some of his progeny in the many places where the movement flourished.

Freud and Psychoanalysis takes us from Vienna to London, from Paris to New York and Hollywood, from the lab to the couch, to the campus, to film and to literature. This is a slim book that packs a big punch. It invites any curious reader into a field and a way of thinking that shaped the twentieth century.

By: John Forrester
Edited by: Lisa Appignanesi
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781509558124
ISBN 10: 1509558128
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Freud and Psychoanalysis: Six Introductory Lectures

Clear and compelling, these lectures are at once more than accessible and often startlingly informative. In his characteristically lucid and incisive way Forrester makes Freud new and intriguing. This book is that rare thing, a book as much for the curious as for the knowledgeable. The best book on Freud for many years. Adam Phillips