Freud And His Followers (Da Capo Series in Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (994 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306804727 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 560 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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. From the Back Cover Paul Roazen's classic study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle is widely recognized as the best portrait of Freud and his world, and it focuses as much on the human dramas involved as on the ideas the participants developed
Roazen draws on several hundred interviews with more than 70 people who knew Freud, as well as the unreleased papers of his authorized biographer, Ernest Jones.. Here, around the master, are the disciples Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Stekel, Carl Jung, and Otto Rank, who broke away to found their own movements; the loyalists such as Karl Abraham and Sandor Ferenczi; the great woman therapists, including Helene Deutsch, Melanie Klein, and Anna Freud; as well as such younger students as Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, and Erich Fromm. Paul Roazen's study of Sigmund Freud and his complex relationships with the men and women who formed his circle is widely recognized as the best portrait of Freu
"A gold mine of information" according to e. verrillo. This book is a treasure trove of information about Freud and his early followers. Roazen (who had already published two previous works on Freud) interviewed 110 of Freud's former patients, colleagues and family members in order to obtain an inside perspective on Freud. These interviews, combined with a thorough knowledge of Freud's writings, lend an unusual candor to Roazen's account. As a consequence, Roazen's book was not only highly insight. A BIOGRAPHY BASED IN LARGE PART ON PERSONAL INTERVIEWS Steven H Propp Paul Roazen (1936-2005) was a political scientist and historian, who taught at York University in Toronto until his retirement in 1995; he wrote other books such as Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk, The Historiography of Psychoanalysis, Freud: Political and Social Thought, etc.He wrote in the Preface to this 1975 book, "In order to get a fresh perspective on what had already appeared in books, I set out in the fall of 1964 to inter. Unatural nature. I am greatly pleased by Verillo's comments. I read Roazen 30 years ago and was pleased by the heretical stuff (Eichorn/Mahler). The revelation about Freud's personality rings true. (I'm reading about LBJ now.) The really surprising thing about it is that these are not freaks. Such people are not common and they are not met with by many. That is perhaps because they associate with those who serve their ends and they are mostly those who are und