Encountering Freud
Subtitle: the Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis
By: Paul Roazen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781351317085
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; History; Psychanalyse; Histoire
Description: "In this volume Paul Roazen examines different national responses to Freud and the beginnings of psychoanalysis. He examines Freud's work in the contexts of law, society, and class, as well as other forms of psychology. Encountering Freud includes a brilliant essay on Freud and the question of psychoanalysis' contribution to radical thought, in contrast to the conservative tradition. Roazen takes up the extravagant claims of Marcuse and Reich, and sees the risks of then overglamorization of the beginnings of psychoanalysis as a profession. Roazen views the legacies of Harry Stack Sullivan, Helene Deutsch, and Erik H. Erikson as less rich because their work conformed to the social status quo. He sees Freud's inability to avoid an ambiguous outcome as a lack of concern with normality and a refusal to own up to the wide variety of psychological solutions he found both therapeutically tolerable and humanly desirable. Roazen concludes with a series of explorations on the dichotomies Freud left behind: clinical discoveries versus philosophical standpoints; the relationship of normality to nihilism; and a defense of a therapeutic setting based on trained specialists versus a therapeutic approach encouraging self-expression. This is a volume that utilizes a sharp focus on Freud and his followers and dissenters to explore the question of political psychology at one end and psych-history at the other end of analysis."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 2 The Old World  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 3 America  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 4 Letter Writing  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 5 Insanity and the Law  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 6 The Tausk Problem  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 7 Marxism  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 8 Ego Psychology  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 9 Biography  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 10 Brief Lives  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 11 Heretics  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 12 Loyalism  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 13 Political Psychology  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 14 Psychohistory  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 15 Sages  -- Paul Roazen; title: chapter 16 Conclusion -- Paul Roazen.