Bibliograph

Freud, the making of an illusion, Frederick Crews

Type

Label

Freud, the making of an illusion, Frederick Crews

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-730) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Freud

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

958459935

Responsibility statement

Frederick Crews

Sub title

the making of an illusion

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Part one: Sigmund the unready -- Between identities -- Getting by -- Forsaking all others -- Part two: The first temptation -- White magic -- A friend in need -- The wrong discoverer -- Expert judgments -- The survivor -- Exit, pursued -- Part three: Blind submission -- A French connection -- The travesty -- Attachment therapy -- In dubious battle -- Part four: Playing doctor -- Medicine man -- Tending to goldfish -- Lessons taken and applied -- Traumas on demand -- Part five: His turn to shine -- Now or never -- The founding deception -- Adjusting the record -- Narrative truth -- Arraying the neuroses -- Part six: Off the deep end -- The secret sharer -- The Freudian neuron -- Diminished capacity -- Dire therapy -- Self-seduced -- The breakthrough that wasn't -- The labyrinth of reproaches -- Part seven: Little big man -- Wishing makes it so -- Sexual healing -- The unborn avenger -- Girl trouble -- A law unto himself -- Imposing his will -- Appendix: Are we being Freudian yet?

Target audience

adult

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