Freud: A Life for Our TimeNorton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth by reissuing Peter Gay's best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction. A New York Times bestseller, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. 72 illustrations. |
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Contents
FOOD FOR MEMORIES 4 THE LURE or RESEARCH zz FREUD | 37 |
T w o The Theory in the Making | 55 |
A NECESSARY FRIENDAND ENEMY HYSTERICS PROIECTS AND | 87 |
T H R E E Psychoanalysis | 103 |
THE SECRET OF DREAMS 104 A PSYCHOLOGY FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS 1 17 | 142 |
19021915 | 156 |
AT FIFTY 153 PLEASURES OF THE SENSES 162 THE WEDNESDAY PSY | 179 |
Therapy and Technique | 244 |
COMPREHENSIVE AND MOMENTOUS THINGS 361 UNEASY PEACE | 374 |
EXPERIENCE AND THEORY 390 EROS EGO AND THEIR ENE | 408 |
N E Death against Life | 417 |
INTIMATIONS or MORTALITY 417 ANNA 428 THE PRICE 01 POP | 459 |
RANK AND THE CONSEQUENCES 470 DOCTORS DILEMMAS | 489 |
WOMAN THE DARK CONTINENT | 501 |
E v E N Human Nature at Work | 523 |
THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT | 571 |
A PROBLEMATIC DEBUT 246 TWO CLASSIC LESSONS 255 IN HIS | 292 |
S E v E N Applications and Implications | 306 |
MATTERS OF TASTE 306 FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY 324 MAPPING | 342 |
c H T Aggressions | 361 |
Abbreviations | 653 |
Bibliographical Essay | 741 |
Acknowledgments | 781 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Freud: A Life for Our Time |
| Author | Peter Gay |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, annotated |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0393328619, 9780393328615 |
| Length | 810 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists Psychology / General Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis |
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