Diane O'Donoghue is Director of the Program for Public Humanities and Senior Fellow for the Humanities at the Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life, at Tufts University, USA. She is also Visiting Professor for Public Humanities at Brown University, and a scholar member of and on the faculty at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. There she has been a Silberger Scholar and is a recipient of their Felix and Helene Deutsch Prize. Her work on Freud’s early formulations of psychoanalysis also has been awarded the CORST Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.
In the final years of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud began to construct evidence for the workings of an “unconscious.” On Dangerous Ground offers an innovative assessment of the complex role that... (more)