Freud: A Life for Our Time

Gay, Peter

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Langue : anglais

Edité par W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London, 1988

0393025179 / 9780393025170

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MAGISTERIAL: BRILLIANT: REVEALING: LUCID; INDISPENSABLE: AS-NEW virtually NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (March 1988): NEW strikingly handsome mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, SUPERB NEW carmine-red silk-finish linen-over boards cover w/ "Griffin & Sage" design gilt-stamped inside elegant double-rule gilt borders at top-center front panel w/ ELEGANTLY presented titles in fresh gilt-stamp on spine, IMMACULATE pale-lime card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW stiched perfect binding w/ tight signatures & w/ white-red-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Avanta / Walbaum on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUSTRATIONS: Four 8-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images * CONTENTS: Preface (xv), Abbreviations (653), Notes (655), Bibliographical Essay (741), Acknowledgments (781), Index (787) * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.86", 1.26 kg, xxii+810 (832) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful & embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler & the fall of Austria. We watch him devising & revising his epoch-making theories. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling w/ his disciples. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled & sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna through Europe, across the ocean to the United States & throughout the world. Drawing on a vast store of revealing unpublished documents, including 100s of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers his passions & follows his astonishing career. He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. He discloses for the first time the dimensions of Freud's love for his daughter Anna, & his unorthodox analysis of her. He offers a thoughtful, detailed, fascinating account of Freud's relations w/ such problematic followers as Jung & Ferenczi. He deals frankly w/ the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, & his theoretical innovations, which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. Perhaps most important & rewarding of all, no previous biographer has so securely integrated into Freud's life his case histories, technical papers, speculative aesthetics, & excursions into prehistory & cultural criticism. The sections scattered across this book in which Peter Gay lucidly expounds & explains Freud's theories of dreams & sexuality, development & neurosis, love & hate amount to a comprehensive (& comprehensible) liberal education in psychoanalytic thought, which is far more discussed than it is understood. Fitting as they do into Freud's most intimate concerns & cultural loyalties, these ideas gain a vivid life of their own. The reader will long remember the Freud that Peter Gay reveals here: student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, friend, founder, controversialist, Jew, victim, & victor. This book, brilliantly argued & brilliantly written, evokes an age, & the life & ideas of a man who, in W H. Auden’s phrase, is "no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A MAGISTERIAL contribution to the history of ideas. A FRESH & ILLUMINATING perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." - J. Anthony Lukas * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

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Titre
Freud: A Life for Our Time
Auteur
Gay, Peter
Éditeur
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York & London
Année de publication
1988
État de l'article
As New
Jaquette
New
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0393025179
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780393025170
Illustrateur
Four eight-pp. illus. inserts on gloss-laminated paper (after pp.106, 234, 394, 618) presenting a splendid array of b-w photos & images
Édition
Stated First Edition
Impression
1st Printing
Poids de l'article
1,26 kilogramme

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