Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: November 22, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780804733069
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis; History; 1856-1939; Freud, Sigmund,; Psychoanalysis
First sentence: In his memoir of his famous father, Martin Freud recalls an evening during his student days when he and his parents discussed classical education with a professor of philology.
Description: "Combining approaches from literary studies and historical sociology, this book provides a cultural history of the strategies Freud employed in his writings and career to orchestrate public recognition of psychoanalysis and to shape its institutional identity.".

"In the current controversy over Freud's legacy, the author offers a critical assessment of the institutional opportunities and constraints that have conditioned the cultural fate of psychoanalytic knowledge in the twentieth century. This book's account of Freud's own forays across disciplines also affords an opportunity to consider the institutional claims of such new interdisciplinary fields as cultural studies in historical perspective."--BOOK JACKET.