Description
John Forrester's passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range and lucidity bring the evolution of Freud's thinking and the nature of Freud's discoveries into sharp focus. With an historian's eye for context, Forrester explores Freud's biography, the scientific moment, the radical subject matter of the field itself - sex, dreams, desire, the unconscious, childhood, language - as well as Freud's development of a new clinical practice.
Forrester also explores both the growth of the psychoanalytic movement and the question of what kind of beast it might be as it travels through time and geography. He illuminates the cultural and revolutionary impact of psychoanalytic thinking - not only Freud's, but that of some of his progeny in the many places where the movement flourished.
Freud and Psychoanalysis takes us from Vienna to London, from Paris to New York and Hollywood, from the lab to the couch, to the campus, to film and to literature. This is a slim book that packs a big punch. It invites any curious reader into a field and a way of thinking that shaped the twentieth century.
Author: John Forrester
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 07/17/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781509558117
ISBN10: 150955811X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
About the Author
John Forrester was Professor of History and the Philosophy of the Sciences at the University of Cambridge. An authority on Freud, Lacan, psychoanalysis, and the history of the human sciences, his books include Thinking in Cases, Freud in Cambridge, Dispatches from the Freud Wars, Truth Games, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis and, with Lisa Appignanesi, Freud's Women.
Lisa Appignanesi is the prize-winning author of many books, including Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors, Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness and Losing the Dead, and co-author with John Forrester of Freud's Women. She was Chair of the Freud Museum London and the Royal Society of Literature, and President of English Pen.