The Young Freud
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Before the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious, and searching. Billa Zanuso's The Young Freud chronicles the formative years of one of history's most consequential thinkers, tracing his intellectual and personal development from his early scientific training in Ernst Brücke's physiology laboratory through his pivotal studies in Paris under Jean-Martin Charcot, illuminating the crucible in which psychoanalysis was forged. Zanuso presents a richly detailed portrait of the pre-psychoanalytic Freud, arguing that a thorough understanding of his neurological and scientific roots is essential to grasping the full architecture of his later thought. Her meticulous scholarship draws on Freud's own correspondence and notebooks, reconstructing with precision the intellectual climate of late nineteenth-century Vienna and the personal struggles — financial hardship, professional insecurity, and romantic longing — that shaped his singular genius. For anyone who believes they already know Sigmund Freud, this penetrating study of his origins issues a quietly irresistible challenge.
Author: Billa Zanuso
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Before the couch, before the theories that would rewrite the map of the human mind, there was a young Sigmund Freud — restless, ambitious, and searching. Billa Zanuso's The Young Freud chronicles the formative years of one of history's most consequential thinkers, tracing his intellectual and personal development from his early scientific training in Ernst Brücke's physiology laboratory through his pivotal studies in Paris under Jean-Martin Charcot, illuminating the crucible in which psychoanalysis was forged. Zanuso presents a richly detailed portrait of the pre-psychoanalytic Freud, arguing that a thorough understanding of his neurological and scientific roots is essential to grasping the full architecture of his later thought. Her meticulous scholarship draws on Freud's own correspondence and notebooks, reconstructing with precision the intellectual climate of late nineteenth-century Vienna and the personal struggles — financial hardship, professional insecurity, and romantic longing — that shaped his singular genius. For anyone who believes they already know Sigmund Freud, this penetrating study of his origins issues a quietly irresistible challenge.