Freud : a life for our time /

A biography and study of the psychoanalyst's career, family, personal life, and professional struggles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gay, Peter, 1923-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, [1988]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foundations : 1856-1905
  • P.1 A greed for knowledge
  • Food for memories
  • The lure of research
  • Freud in love
  • P.2 The theory in the making
  • A necessary friend, and enemy
  • Hysterics, projects, and embarrassments
  • Self-analysis
  • P.3 Psychoanalysis
  • The secret of dreams
  • A psychology for psychologists
  • From Rome to Vienna : a progress
  • A map for sexuality
  • Elaborations : 1902-1915
  • P.4 Sketch of an embattled founder
  • At fifty
  • Pleasures of the senses
  • The Wednesday psychological society
  • The foreigners
  • P.5 Psychoanalytic politics
  • Jung : the crown prince
  • American interlude
  • Vienna versus Zurich
  • Jung : the enemy
  • P.6 Therapy and technique
  • A problematic debut
  • Two classic lessons
  • In his own cause : Leonardo, Schreber, Fliess
  • In his own cause : the politics of the wolf man
  • A handbook for technicians
  • P.7 Applications and implications
  • Matters of taste
  • Foundations of society
  • Mapping the mind
  • The end of Europe
  • Revisions : 1915-1939
  • P.8 Aggressions
  • Comprehensive and momentous things
  • Uneasy peace
  • Death : experience and theory
  • Eros, ego, and their enemies
  • P.9 Death against life
  • Intimations of mortality
  • Anna
  • The price of popularity
  • Vitality : the Berlin spirit
  • P.10 Flickering lights on dark continents
  • Rank and the consequences
  • Doctors' dilemmas
  • Woman, the dark continent
  • P.11 Human nature at work
  • Against illusions
  • Civilization : the human predicament
  • The ugly Americans
  • Trophies and obituaries
  • P.12 To die in freedom
  • The politics of disaster
  • Defiance as identity
  • Finis Austriae
  • Death of a stoic.