Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

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Andreas Mayer Christopher Barber

Sites of the Unconscious

Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

Andreas Mayer, Christopher Barber

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University of Chicago Press
02 September 2013

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Hypnosis; History of science

In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transform hypnosis into a laboratory science failed, his Viennese translator and disciple Sigmund Freud took up the challenge and invented psychoanalysis. Previous scholarship has viewed hypnosis and psychoanalysis in sharp opposition or claimed that both were ultimately grounded in the phenomenon of suggestion and thus equally flawed. In this groundbreaking study, Andreas Mayer reexamines the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, revealing that the emergence of the familiar Freudian psychoanalytic setting cannot be understood without a detailed analysis of the sites, material and social practices, and controversies within the checkered scientific and medical landscape of hypnotism. Sites of the Unconscious analyzes the major controversies between competing French schools of hypnotism that emerged at this time, stressing their different views on the production of viable evidence and their different ways of deploying hypnosis. Mayer then reconstructs in detail the reception of French hypnotism in German-speaking countries, arguing that the distinctive features of Freud’s psychoanalytic setting of the couch emerged out of the clinical laboratories and private consulting rooms of the practitioners of hypnosis.

By: Andreas Mayer
Translated by: Christopher Barber
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780226057958
ISBN 10: 022605795X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 September 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andreas Mayer is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is coauthor of Dreaming By the Book. Christopher Barber's recent translations include Freud Verbatim and The Secession Talks.

Reviews for Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting

There are few people with such deep knowledge of the early career of Sigmund Freud as Andreas Mayer, and probably no Freud scholar with his grasp of the history of science and medicine in late nineteenth-century France, Austria, and Germany. Here Mayer couples great erudition with methodological innovations drawn from recent science studies to skillfully reexamine the key sites and experimental cultures of hysteria, hypnosis, and early psychoanalysis. Sites of the Unconscious is a tour de force that marks an important advance in our understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis. (Robert M. Brain, University of British Columbia)