Freud's Women by John Forrester - ISBN: 9780753819166
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Behind Freud’s theories: extraordinary women shaped psychoanalysis itself.

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    608 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2005

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Summary

No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked for both his theories of femininity and for his alleged elevation of personal prejudice to universal pronouncement.

Freud’s Women examines that bold collaboration with his female patients which made psychoanalysis as much their creation as the young Viennese doctor’s. It explores Freud’s family life, his relations with daughter Anna, his ‘Antigone’, and hi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780753819166
ISBN-10:0753819163
Author:John Forrester, Lisa Appignanesi
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:608
Release Date:1 May 2005
Weight:760g
Dimensions:234mm x 154mm x 48mm
About The Author

John Forrester

Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist and writer. A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, she has made programs for television and co-edited many books, including The Rushdie File and Science and Beyond. She broadcasts and reviews regularly and is a Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

John Forrester, Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences at Cambridge University, is a noted Freud scholar and writer on psychoanalysis. He is a co-translator of Lacan’s Seminars I and II.

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