Table of contents:
Part I: Getting Ready. A Theory of Lives. The Stuff of Dreams: Cultural and Familial Threads. Dream Weaving (Birth to Age 17). Part II: Setting Sail. The Journey from Adolescence to the Adult World (Ages 17 to 22): A Second Element Added to the Dream. Entering the Adult World (Ages 22 to 28). The Age-30 Transition (Ages 28 to 33): From Student to Physician and Paterfamilias. Settling Down and Becoming His Own Man (Ages 33 to 40). Part III: The Mid-Life Transition. Losing the Way (Ages 40 to 43): The Initial Phase of the Mid-Life Transition. Lost (Ages 43 to 45): The Final Phase of the Mid-Life Transition. A Wider Realm (After Age 45): The Entry into Middle Age and Beyond.
Drawing from highly personal correspondence, some of which has only recently been released, this illuminating biography applies a developmental approach to Freud's youth and transition to middle age. It reconstructs the years during which Freud determined his goals, suffered a crisis resulting from his inability to realize them, and fought his way through to the creation of psychoanalysis. In so doing, the book reveals the great complexity of Freud's personal reality and simultaneously challenges critiques of his thinking.
This book will be of interest to readers in the history of psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud.
Drawing from highly personal correspondence, some of which has only recently been released, this illuminating biography applies a developmental approach to Freud's youth and transition to middle age.
Part I: Getting Ready. A Theory of Lives. The Stuff of Dreams: Cultural and Familial Threads. Dream Weaving (Birth to Age 17). Part II: Setting Sail. The Journey from Adolescence to the Adult World (Ages 17 to 22): A Second Element Added to the Dream. Entering the Adult World (Ages 22 to 28). The Age-30 Transition (Ages 28 to 33): From Student to Physician and Paterfamilias. Settling Down and Becoming His Own Man (Ages 33 to 40). Part III: The Mid-Life Transition. Losing the Way (Ages 40 to 43): The Initial Phase of the Mid-Life Transition. Lost (Ages 43 to 45): The Final Phase of the Mid-Life Transition. A Wider Realm (After Age 45): The Entry into Middle Age and Beyond.
Drawing from highly personal correspondence, some of which has only recently been released, this illuminating biography applies a developmental approach to Freud's youth and transition to middle age. It reconstructs the years during which Freud determined his goals, suffered a crisis resulting from his inability to realize them, and fought his way through to the creation of psychoanalysis. In so doing, the book reveals the great complexity of Freud's personal reality and simultaneously challenges critiques of his thinking.
This book will be of interest to readers in the history of psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud.
Drawing from highly personal correspondence, some of which has only recently been released, this illuminating biography applies a developmental approach to Freud's youth and transition to middle age.