Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers

Freud's Women examines biography, case history, dreams, correspondence, journals, and theory to chart Freud's views on femininity No Modern Writer Has Affected Our Views On Women As Powerfully As Sigmund Freud. And None Has Been So Virulently Attacked Both For His Theories Of The Feminine And For His Alleged Elevation Of Personal Prejudice To The Height Of Universal Pronouncement. Libertarian, Old-fashioned Moralist, Victorian Patriarch, Prophet Of Polymorphous Perversity - These Are Only Some Of The Contradictory Epithets Freud Has Borne. True, The Women In Freud's Domestic Life, With The Exception Of Anna, His Antigone, Were Conventional Enough, As Were Many Of His Views On Their Role In Society. Yet Freud's Closest Women Friends Were Anything But Conventional. From The Writer And Turn-of-the-century Femme Fatale Lou Andreas-salome, To The Socialist Feminist Helene Deutsch, Early Theorist Of Femininity, To Princess Marie Bonaparte Who Moved From Couch To Royal Court With Amazing Facility And Became Head Of The French Psychoanalytic Movement, Freud's Female Friends And Pupils Were Extraordinary. And Then There Were His Patients - The Famous And Infamous Cases Of Women Crucial To His Theories And His Method Of Analytic Investigation. In Many Ways Psychoanalysis Is As Much Their Creation As That Of The Young Viennese Doctor.--jacket. Pt. I. Freud Family Romance -- 1. Young Freud -- 2. 'not A Bad Solution Of The Marriage Problem' -- Pt. Ii. Inventing Psychoanalysis -- 3. First Patients -- 4. Dream Of Psychoanalysis -- 5. Dora: An Exemplary Failure -- Pt. Iii. Woman's Profession -- 6. Early Friends, Early Cases, Early Followers -- 7. Sabina Spielrein And Loe Kann: Two Analytic Triangles -- 8. Lou Andreas-salome: 'the Fortunate Animal' -- 9. Anna Freud: The Dutiful Daughter -- 10. Helene Deutsch: As If A Modern Woman -- 11. Marie Bonaparte And Freud's French Court -- 12. Joan Riviere And Alix Strachey: Translating Psychoanalysis -- 13. Friendship Of Women -- Pt. Iv. Question Of Femininity -- 14. Freud's Femininity: Theoretical Investigations -- 15. Dispute Over Woman -- 16. Feminism And Psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi And John Forrester. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [527]-545) And Index. "No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked both for his theories of the feminine and for his alleged elevation of personal prejudice to the height of universal pronouncement. Libertarian, old-fashioned moralist, Victorian patriarch, prophet of polymorphous perversity - these are only some of the contradictory epithets Freud has borne."--BOOK JACKET. "True, the women in Freud's domestic life, with the exception of Anna, his Antigone, were conventional enough, as were many of his views on their role in society. Yet Freud's closest women friends were anything but conventional. From the writer and turn-of-the-century femme fatale Lou Andreas-Salome, to the socialist feminist Helene Deutsch, early theorist of femininity, to Princess Marie Bonaparte who moved from couch to royal court with amazing facility and became head of the French psychoanalytic movement, Freud's female friends and "pupils" were extraordinary. And then there were his patients - the famous and infamous cases of women crucial to his theories and his method of analytic investigation. In many ways psychoanalysis is as much their creation as that of the young Viennese doctor."--BOOK JACKET Focusing on the women in Freud's life, the authors reveal the influence of female patients, followers, and family members on the theories of the father of psychoanalysis. By the author of Memory and Desire. National ad/promo. Pitting biography against case history, mining dreams, correspondences and journals, this book tells the many stories of the women in Sigmund Freud's life, family, friends and patients.