Freud

In His Time and Ours

Élisabeth Roudinesco, Catherine Porter

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
07 November 2016

Biography; Biography: science, technology & engineering; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century-a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.

Roudinesco traces Freud's life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis' annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu of fin de siècle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg Empire-an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig, and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire.

Yet this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the analytically-minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his intellectual complexity-the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved-Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture.

By: Élisabeth Roudinesco
Translated by: Catherine Porter
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 1.004kg
ISBN: 9780674659568
ISBN 10: 0674659562
Pages: 530
Publication Date: 07 November 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elisabeth Roudinesco is Head of Research in History at University of Paris VII Denis Diderot.

Reviews for Freud: In His Time and Ours

Do we think we know all there is to know about Freud? Not even close. Elisabeth Roudinesco s book is full of fresh facts about Freud s life and potent interpretation of his work. A sparkling and highly original intellectual biography.--Mark Edmundson, author of <i>The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days</i>