Early Freud and Late Freud
Part of New Library of Psychoanalysis series - more in this series
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 1997
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 4192
- ISBN 13 : 9780415148443
- ISBN 10 : 0415148448
Also by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
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The author examines 'Studies on Hysteria' and 'Moses and Monotheism'. She argues that the former introduces the key element of trauma, upon which much of modern psychonalysis has been built, and that the latter develops the trauma theory, in the light of Freud's self-analysis and his experience of Nazism. 152 pages.
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Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, well-known as a Freud scholar and editor of Freud's works, has long advocated a return to his original texts in order to comprehend fully the power and innovative force of his theories. In Early Freud and Late Freud she examines the earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on Hysteria, which Freud wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last book. The essay on Studies on Hysteria reveals to the reader why that book is indeed the `primal book' of psychoanalysis. Not only does it offer a moving and dramatic account of the birth of the psychoanalytic method, but by introducing the key concept of trauma it establishes a foundation on which much of modern psychoanalysis has been built. Freud was to return to his original theory of trauma in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, where he developed it further in the light of his intervening researches. On the basis of her study of the Moses manuscripts and by applying the psychoanalytic method, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis shows how contemporary traumatic events in Nazi Germany may have influenced this return to the beginning and the intensification of Freud's self-analysis. This in turn was to lead to new insights into archaic forms of defence, pointing the way forward for modern psychoanalysis. Elegantly constructed and persuasively argued, Early Freud and Late Freud re-establishes the importance of two major Freudian texts, offering a new understanding of their significance.
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