Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst Contributor(s): Phillips, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300158661 ISBN-13: 9780300158663 Publisher: Yale University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2014 Click for more in this series: Jewish Lives (Hardcover) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Biography & Autobiography | Religious |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2013048573 |
Series: Jewish Lives (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 8.52" L (0.80 lbs) 192 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Deckle Edges, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Awards: National Jewish Book Award, Winner, Book of the Year, 2014 |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2014 Library Journal 05/15/2014 pg. 95 Publishers Weekly 05/26/2014 New Yorker (The) 07/21/2014 pg. 81 New York Times Book Review 08/10/2014 pg. 10 Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 706 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a strikingly original biography of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis "Adam Phillips is, I believe, one of the most engaging writers in the world on analysis and the analytic movement . . . Phillips's own love of the beauty and power of psychoanalysis here serves both him and the reader wonderfully well."--Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Becoming Freud is the story of the young Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)--Freud up until the age of fifty--that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer," emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story of Freud's earliest years as the oldest--and favored--son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant--increasingly, of course, everybody's status in the modern world. Psychoanalysis was also Freud's way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So as well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries, Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have become if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: "Excellent" -New York Times "Exemplary" -Wall St. Journal "Distinguished" -New Yorker "Superb" -The Guardian |
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