Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis (RLE: Freud) - 9781138993136

Taylor & Francis

Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis (RLE: Freud)Studies in the Transition from Victorian Humanism to Modernity\nAuthor(s): Steven Marcus\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138993136, 978-1138993136\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1984, this book broke new ground in assessing Freud as both an exemplary late-Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the creation of modern thought and culture. In his close reading of various of Freuds theoretical and clinical texts, including two of the most famous case histories, Steven Marcus uncovers the steps in the development of Freuds thought, the dynamics and contradictions and the intellectual and emotional urgings, forces and conflicts that were at work as the first original insights and discoveries that constituted the inception of psychoanalysis as a theory, discipline of inquiry, and new kind of therapy, came suddenly, often unexpectedly and without being bidden, upon .