Early Freud and Late Freud: Reading Anew Studies on Hysteria and Moses and Monotheism

ISBN-13: 9780415148443 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 136 str.

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis

Opis

In this text, the author examines Freud's earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on Hysteria, which he wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, his last book. The essay on Studies on Hysteria reveals to the reader why that book is considered the primal book of psychoanalysis. If offers an account of the birth of the psychoanalytic method and introduces the key concept of trauma - establishing a foundation on which much of modern psychoanalysis has been built. Freud was to return to his original theory of trauma in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, where he developed it further in the light of his intervening researches. On the basis of her study of the Moses manuscripts and by applying the psychoanalytic method, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis shows how contemporary traumatic events in Nazi Germany may have influenced this return to the beginning and the intensification of Freud's self-analysis.

Recenzje

For some two decades, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis has been a leading - probably the leading - student of Freud. Her readings of the fundamental texts of psychoanalysis are exemplary: they have successfully established what is in them and should help to correct what Freud bashers 'claim' is in them, two very different things. In addition to her impeccable scholarship, she brings to bear a solid quantity of good sense which invites, almost compels, assent. - Peter Gay, Harvard University, USA

Spis treści

List of Figures. Preliminary Note. Introduction. The Primal Book of Psychoanalysis: Studies on Hysteria a Hundred Years On. Freud's Study of Moses as a Daydream: A Biographical Essay. Appendix: Description of the Moses Manuscripts. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.

O autorze

Ilse Grubrich-Simitis is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Frankfurt. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and a training and supervising analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association.