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English
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In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sensational, eye-opening narrative nonfiction account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung, and her critical impact on the early years of the psychoanalytic movement"--
Author
Publisher
Overlook
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 307 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley. Yet her life story is much more compelling than just one famous relationship. Spielrein overcame family and psychological abuse to become a profoundly original thinker in her own right. Sex Versus Survival is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 746 pages, 16 unnumbered pags of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 580 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freuds life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household...
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