Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend

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1992
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In this intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway seeks to demonstrate that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind , and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero as it served to consolidate the analytic movement. This aims to be a revolutionary reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis.

Synopsis

In this intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway seeks to demonstrate that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a "biologist of the mind", and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as "psychoanalytic hero" as it served to consolidate the analytic movement. This aims to be a revolutionary reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 638
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 02 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0674323351
ISBN 13: 9780674323353

Media Reviews

Fascinating...A thought-provoking tour through this extraordinary chapter in the history of ideas. -- Jean Strouse Newsweek A work of prodigious scholarship in its own right. It establishes a new level of empirical precision and critical skill in the analysis of Freud's life. -- Peter Brooks New York Times Book Review Extraordinarily exciting and enlightening...A truly comprehensive intellectual biography of Freud and the analytic movement, which embodies the scholarship so sorely lacking in previous endeavors...The result here is an informative, authoritative, and comprehensive work, brimming with all sorts of revelations and new versions of old tales about Freud's...predecessors and contemporaries. One's view of Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis will never be quite the same after reading this book. -- Arnold Bernstein Modern Psychoanalysis

Author Bio

Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.