The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life And Achievement
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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A landmark work of intellectual biography, The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life and Achievement by Marthe Robert chronicles the extraordinary life of Sigmund Freud while tracing the seismic cultural and scientific upheaval his ideas unleashed upon the modern world. Robert presents Freud not merely as a clinician, but as a revolutionary thinker whose theories of the unconscious, dream interpretation, and human sexuality permanently altered humanity's understanding of the mind. Written with scholarly rigor yet accessible prose, the biography illuminates the personal struggles, intellectual battles, and relentless ambition that drove Freud from his early neurological research to the founding of an entirely new discipline. Robert argues that psychoanalysis was not simply a medical innovation but a profound philosophical transformation, one that reshaped literature, art, anthropology, and the very language we use to speak about ourselves. This authoritative and elegantly composed account stands as an essential portrait of one of history's most consequential and controversial minds.
Author: Marthe Robert
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of intellectual biography, The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life and Achievement by Marthe Robert chronicles the extraordinary life of Sigmund Freud while tracing the seismic cultural and scientific upheaval his ideas unleashed upon the modern world. Robert presents Freud not merely as a clinician, but as a revolutionary thinker whose theories of the unconscious, dream interpretation, and human sexuality permanently altered humanity's understanding of the mind. Written with scholarly rigor yet accessible prose, the biography illuminates the personal struggles, intellectual battles, and relentless ambition that drove Freud from his early neurological research to the founding of an entirely new discipline. Robert argues that psychoanalysis was not simply a medical innovation but a profound philosophical transformation, one that reshaped literature, art, anthropology, and the very language we use to speak about ourselves. This authoritative and elegantly composed account stands as an essential portrait of one of history's most consequential and controversial minds.