Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
New Books in the History of Science
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Freud's Early Life in Freiburg
The received interpretation froid, which he himself promulgated, was that he was a high functioning neuralic patient who hadn't suffered any early tralmas. But research into his early life in freiburg has revealed this is not the case. And what he had done was actually split off and repressed the earlier stages in his own life and the psychic phenomena that are attached to them. He wasn't able to see it in his patients and incorporate it in his theory. That's why i have the thesis of the missing ther and part of my attempt to trace the ramifications of this throughout the history of ois theory.
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