Freud: The Making of an Illusion
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NAYNITF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 178 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Altogether a fascinating read!”Frank J. Sulloway, author of Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend. Crews is a master narrator, and he has put his finger on the key factor in Freud's career?the remarkable series of intense, morally fraught, and truly bizarre relationships (collegial, therapeutic, and sexual) that kept Freud going as his theories proved ever resistant to confirmation.”John Farrell, author of Freud’s Paranoid Quest“One has to admire Crews’s story: the way he tells it, and the m
Frederick Crews is the author of many books, including the bestselling satire The Pooh Perplex, Postmodern Pooh, and most recently, Follies of the Wise, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, he is widely regarded as the leading critic of Freud and psychoanalysis.
Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews has assembled a great volume of evidence that reveals a surprising new Freud: a man who blundered tragicomically in his dealings with patients, who in fact never cured anyone, who promoted cocaine as a miracle drug capable of curing a wide range of diseases, and who advanced his career through falsifying case histories and betraying the mentors who had helped him to rise. The legend has persisted, Crews shows, thanks to Freud’s fictive self-invention as a master detective of the psyche, and later through a campaign of censorship and falsification conducted by his followers.A monumental biographical study and a slashing critique, Freud: The Making of an Illusion will stand as the last word on one of the most significant and contested figures of the twentieth century.. From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin—but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value