Originally published in 1984, this book broke new ground in assessing Freud as both an exemplary late-Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the creation of modern thought and culture. In his close reading of various of Freud s theoretical and clinical texts, including two of the most famous case histories, Steven Marcus uncovers the steps in the development of Freud s thought, the dynamics and contradictions and the intellectual and emotional urgings, forces and conflicts that were at work as the first original insights and discoveries that constituted the inception of psychoanalysis as a...
Originally published in 1984, this book broke new ground in assessing Freud as both an exemplary late-Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the crea...
