Author : Lisa Appignanesi
Release : 2001
Genre : Women and psychoanalysis
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 948/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Freud's Women by : Lisa Appignanesi

Download or read book Freud's Women written by Lisa Appignanesi. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freudacirc;Äôs ideas permeate our everyday thinking about life, love, gender, the family, and the relation between the sexes. These ideas took on their shape and substance in the same period that acirc;Äúthe woman questionacirc;Äù became a burning issue. Sometimes championed as a liberator of women, Freud has also been virulently attacked for his theories of the feminine and for elevating his personal prejudices to the height of universal pronouncement.Freudacirc;Äôs Women examines biography, case history, dreams, correspondence, journals, and theory to chart Freudacirc;Äôs views on femininity. It also tells the many stories of Freudacirc;Äôs women and explores their influence on him and his on them: dutiful daughter Anna, who carried on his work; the novelist and turn-of-the-century femme fatale, Lou Salomete Marie Bonaparte, who mixed royalty and perversity with effortless ease and became the head of the French psychoanalytic movement; the early hysterics who were the cornerstone of psychoanalysis--all these and more emerge vividly from the pages of this important study as it assesses Freudacirc;Äôs contemporary legacy.acirc;ÄúA marvelously rich and engrossing work of intellectual history, deftly composed.acirc;Äù-Richard Wollheim,The New York Times Book Reviewacirc;ÄúAn ambitious history of Freudacirc;Äôs relationships with women--a lucid, sympathetic account.acirc;Äù-Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Yearacirc;ÄúThis wonderful book is the tale of the great twentieth-century love affair with Freudian thought. It is an overblown historical romance that has at its centre the riddle of femininity itself.acirc;Äù-Suzanne Moore,The Guardian