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The Freud Files

The Freud Files

An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis

by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/11/2011

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How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why did Freud 'triumph' to such a degree that we hardly remember his rivals? This book reconstructs the early controversies around psychoanalysis and shows that rather than demonstrating its superiority, Freud and his followers rescripted history. This legend-making was not an incidental addition to psychoanalytic theory but formed its core. Letting the primary material speak for itself, this history demonstrates the extraordinary apparatus by which this would-be science of psychoanalysis installed itself in contemporary societies. Beyond psychoanalysis, it opens up the history of the constitution of the modern psychological sciences and psychotherapies, how they furnished the ideas which we have of ourselves and how these became solidified into indisputable 'facts'.
ISBN:
9780521729789
9780521729789
Category:
Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-11-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
450
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x25mm
Weight:
0.66kg
Sonu Shamdasani

Sonu Shamdasani is a London-based author, editor, and professor at University College London. His research and writings focus on Carl Gustav Jung, and cover the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times.

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