Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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What Are the Four Figures From Freud's Life?
When i was asked to do the book by cambridge university press, a, it was specifically a to be an intellectual biography. So my task was was to interpret the development of freud's thinking against the backdrop of what was non in his life and in the general culture. And the two themes which organize my narrative are what i've called the break with tradition, which tries to locate freud in the historical developments of his day,. And then also the second theme was what i call the missing mother, which has to do with the fact that the theme of the mother is sorely underdeveloped towards the end ofFreud: A Psychoanalytic Biography (Cambridge University Press)
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