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Overview"Freud's development of psychoanalysis is one of the great fault lines of twentieth-century cultural history. The field as such provides one of the great professional dramas of our time: a classic struggle between a new, vital idea and the ignorance, prejudice, and refusal that so often attend major breakthroughs and innovations.Helen Puner's biography, long unavailable, is far more than a professional appreciation. It is the story of a complex, by no means flawless individual, whose personal characteristics helped sow the seeds of controversy as well as ultimately establish a new field. Upon its initial appearance, the Herald Tribune identified the book as ""the first authoritative and profoundly perceptive biography of the man who more than any other has shaped the thinking of the Western World."" It was summarized as a ""brilliant performance, done without fear.""Puner did precisely what irritated Freud most: probe the sources, social no less than personal, religious no less than scientific, that made Freud such a towering figure. Dorothy Canfield caught the spirit of this work when she noted that in this book, we see Freud ""as we never saw him before, as most of us never knew he was, a rigidly virtuous, deeply troubled, upright, dutiful Jewish son, husband and father. We see him tracing the significance of clues he hit upon hi the practice of medicine, and then fit these clues into the bewildering mastery of human behavior.""In his Foreword, Erich Fromm indicates that Puner looks at Freud with genuine admiration, but without idolatry. ""She understands his own psychological problems and has a full appreciation of the pseudo-religious nature of the movement which he created."" And the late Ernest Becker, in The Denial of Death, seconded this estimate by calling the Helen Walker Puner effort ""a brilliant critical biography."" This new edition contains a new introduction by Paul Roazen; with this, and the appreciation of the author by her husband, Samuel Puner, we can better locate the author of the book as well as the famous object of her analysis." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helen W. Puner , Erich Fromm , Paul Roazen , S. P. PunerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9781138532588ISBN 10: 1138532584 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 18 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition, Foreword by Erich Fromm, Preface, Afterword, Prophecies and Premonitions, The New Home, A Boy in Vienna, The Choice of a Path, Paris in the Spring, La Chose Genitale, The Stuff of Dreams, See How It Grows, See How It Splits, Husband and Two Fathers, War Outside, War Inside, Old Man of the Horde, Day to Day, The Passionate Will, The Larger World of Psychoanalysis, Hans im Glueck, Sources and AcknowledgmentsReviewsAuthor InformationHelen Walker Puner was born in New York City in 1915. She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her first job was with Time Incorporated. In 1940, she became the first woman feature editor on Fortune Magazine. After World War II she wrote extensively for national magazines and did a series of books for children. The final years of her career were spent as editor of Parents Magazine; and finally as co-administrator of the Human Relations Division at the New School for Social Research. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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