FREUD, POLITICS & CIVILISATION

FREUD, POLITICS and CIVILISATION is an essay outlining the context in which Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis. The essay counters an imputation that he was apolitical. It briefly considers problems introduced by the translation of his writings, some commentators’ unfamiliarity with the primary texts, and disparities in the quality of debate about his work. It notes the frequent disregard for the political setting in which Freud, a Jew in unfriendly times, managed to keep on writing and working as a psychoanalyst.

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ISBN-10: 1911047027

ISBN-13: 978-1911047025