Freud's Women by Lisa Appignanesi

Freud's Women by Lisa Appignanesi

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A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas.

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Freud's Women by Lisa Appignanesi

A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas. No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked for both his theories of femininity and for his alleged elevation of personal prejudice to universal pronouncement. FREUD'S WOMEN examines that bold collaboration with his female patients which made psychoanalysis as much their creation as the young Viennese doctor's. It explores Freud's family life, his relations with daughter Anna, his 'Antigone', and his friendships with his followers. From the writer and turn of the century 'femme fatale', Lou Andreas Salome, to the socialist feminist, Helene Deutsch, early theorist of femininity, to Princesse Marie Bonaparte, who moved from couch to royal court with amazing facility and became head of the French psychoanalytic movement, Freud's women friends and pupils were extraordinary.
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist and writer. A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, she has made programs for television and co-edited many books, including The Rushdie File and Science and Beyond. She broadcasts and reviews regularly and is a Chevalier des arts et des lettres. John Forrester, Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences at Cambridge University, is a noted Freud scholar and writer on psychoanalysis. He is a co-translator of Lacan's Seminars I and II.
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ISBN 13 9780753819166
ISBN 10 0753819163
Title Freud's Women
Author Lisa Appignanesi
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2005-03-14
Number of pages 608
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.