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Freud : the making of an illusion
- Title
- Freud : the making of an illusion / Frederick Crews.
- Author
- Crews, Frederick C.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9245 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 746 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-730) and index.
- Contents
- Part one: Sigmund the unready -- Between identities -- Getting by -- Forsaking all others -- Part two: The first temptation -- White magic -- A friend in need -- The wrong discoverer -- Expert judgments -- The survivor -- Exit, pursued -- Part three: Blind submission -- A French connection -- The travesty -- Attachment therapy -- In dubious battle -- Part four: Playing doctor -- Medicine man -- Tending to goldfish -- Lessons taken and applied -- Traumas on demand -- Part five: His turn to shine -- Now or never -- The founding deception -- Adjusting the record -- Narrative truth -- Arraying the neuroses -- Part six: Off the deep end -- The secret sharer -- The Freudian neuron -- Diminished capacity -- Dire therapy -- Self-seduced -- The breakthrough that wasn't -- The labyrinth of reproaches -- Part seven: Little big man -- Wishing makes it so -- Sexual healing -- The unborn avenger -- Girl trouble -- A law unto himself -- Imposing his will -- Appendix: Are we being Freudian yet?
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9245
- ISBN
- 9781627797177
- 1627797173
- LCCN
- 2017000826
- OCLC
- 958459935
- Author
- Crews, Frederick C., author.
- Title
- Freud : the making of an illusion / Frederick Crews.
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-730) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9245