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Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD
"Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring, grappling with, arguing about, and learning from this absolutely fascinating book."-JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR,
Necessary Losses and Imperfect Control "Written with brilliance and insight, Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision takes us on a daring, at times chilling, journey to the early years of psychoanalysis, revealing both the human weaknesses and the professional triumphs of its founder. . . . Cutting away the accretions of fabrication and romance cloaking Sigmund Freud, Breger has reinstated historical honesty to its rightful, high place, but the figure who emerges at the end of this breathlessly honest biography is quite as extraordinary as the legend concocted by Freud and perpetuated by his followers. Fresh, vigorous, and lucid."-PHILIP M. BROMBERG, Ph.D., CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
"Louis Breger's fine new biography of Freud is a welcome contribution to the existing literature and a corrective to much of it. It is also one of the best intellectual histories of the origin and development of psychoanalysis I have read in recent years. Breger is to be commended for his original research, the objectivity of his views, and the elegance and grace of his writing."-DEIRDRE BAIR, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR Samuel Beckett AND AUTHOR OF A FORTHCOMING BIOGRAPHY OF CARL JUNG
"Finally, the Freud biography we have long been waiting for. With the history of Europe in the background, we follow with fascination Freud's journey from an impoverished childhood filled with losses to worldly fame, ending in exile in England. We come to understand the impact of Freud's difficult personality on the development of his brilliant as well as questionable theoretical ideas. Breger writes with compassion and fairness toward Freud as well as toward the many interesting personalities who cross his life, with their complicated relationships to the great man."-SOPHIE FREUD, FREUD'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF SOCIAL WORK, SIMMONS COLLEGE
"Louis Breger's magnificent book is the definitive work on the personal psychology of Sigmund Freud. it brilliantly illuminates how the darkness in Freud's vision has affected psychoanalytic history. This book will be central for psychoanalytic scholarship for decades to come."-GEORGE E. ATWOOD, Ph.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
- Sales Rank: #683780 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.69" h x 1.55" w x 6.38" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 480 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In a major new work on the father of psychoanalysis, Breger, Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Studies at California Institute of Technology, synthesizes seminal earlier books such as Ernest Jones's four volume Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953) and Peter Gay's Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988), and provides a new reading of how Freud himself continually altered public and professional perceptions of himself. Breger is adept at reexamining and reinterpreting existing knowledge about Freud, such as how his entrenched pro-militarist feelings about the First World War manifested in his work; his misinformed and conservative disapproval of birth control; and his complicated view of both male and female homosexuality. In addition, Breger fairly evaluates new criticisms of the man and his work, particularly those of Freudian renegade Jeffrey Masson. Especially astute is Breger's delineation of how Freud's understanding of himself as a Jew, as well as the anti-Semitism of his times, contributed to his theories (although curiously he does not refer to any of Sander Gilman's noted work on this topic). Breger's unique contribution is an analysis of how Freud's own interpretation of his childhood "became the prototype for his understanding everyone, a foundation that he relied on throughout his life." Careful to situate Freud in the political, social and artistic contexts of his time, Breger has produced a provocative, well-written and up-to-date account of the life and career of one of the 20th century's most influential intellectual figures. (Sept.)
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From Library Journal
Psychoanalysis ia a clumsy tool, not the scalpel Freud envisioned. In this masterly biography and cultural history, psychologist and psychoanalyst Breger (emeritus, California Inst. of Technology) explains why. Previous Freud biographers Ernest Jones, Paul Roazen, Ronald Clark, and Peter Gay lack his combined clinical acumen and objectivity. Breger interprets carefully, guiding the reader through an oft-told story that has never been made so human. "Sigi," though his mother's favorite, was emotionally starved as a youngster and could not deal with this pain in his creatively evasive self-analysis. His professional frustrations were not caused by Viennese conservatism but by his own way of thinking, working, and treating people. Breger movingly portrays the Great War, Freud's initial enthusiasm for it, his inability to grasp the nature of real trauma, and the resulting death instinct theory. Essential for all public and academic libraries, this landmark work conveys a new sense of one of the great, flawed men and movements of the last century.DE. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC
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From Booklist
Few figures of the past century are more intriguing than Sigmund Freud. His theories have been both proven and disproven, been considered both fashionable and out of favor, and been used in everything from psychoanalysis to literary theory to architectural philosophy. Breger, founder of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, presents a well-researched, new biography of Freud. In it, he deconstructs the myth Freud fabricated of himself, comparing Freud's self-analysis with the actual events of his life. His famous theories, his pioneering role in the field of psychoanalysis, and the obscurity of his childhood are all results of Freud's quest for fame. His greatest work was often revealed through self-analysis: if it was true of Freud, it must be true of everyone. Thus, the universal theories set forth by Freud were "created to explain his own childhood" and became the "prototype for his understanding everyone, a foundation that he relied on throughout his life." This groundbreaking work is more than just plain biography; it is Freudian analysis (literally) at its best. Michael Spinella
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Eloquent and masterful
By Suzanne Nathan
Brilliant, fair and illuminating book that gave me a far deeper impression of Sigmund Freud and the positive and negative influences Freudian psychoanalytic theory has had on the field of psychiatry and our culture. Extremely well -researched and written.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
A fresh and lucid account...
By C. Middleton
Many years ago, an old teacher of mine commented to me that the published writings about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis could fill a suburban library. This could be a slight exaggeration, but the biographies and published essays that one can find on a university library catalogue, for example, reach a remarkable number. Even today, the interest in the man and his work continues unabated, more in the general humanities, however, than psychology itself. What is this unrelenting fascination about Freud that draws so many people to his life and work? This is a hard question to answer, but an interesting one to consider. In the latest contribution to the Freud canon, ~Freud- Darkness in the Midst of Vision~ Louis Breger attempts a somewhat new interpretation of Freud and psychoanalysis, and a successful one.
In the 'Background and Sources' at the back of the text, Breger writes an interesting comment: he states that there are basically three camps or perspectives of the man - the first are the 'fiercely' loyal combatants, the defenders of psychoanalytic orthodoxy; Freud's words are considered gosple and no divergence is permitted. In the second camp are the sharp and brutal critics, who dismiss Freud and psychoanalysis in its entirety. The third category (where Breger places himself) are not worshiping sycophants or radical critics, but those who see the significance of Freud's work, and acknowledge his contributions with a balanced assessment of the man and psychoanalysis in general. This book manages to capture the spirit of the third cartegory with brilliance of insight, objectivity and compassion.
I've read many accounts of Freud and the history of psychoanalysis from hagiography, (Ernest Jones' three-volume mythology) to chatty, uninformed rumour mongering, (Paul Ferris -Dr. Freud A Life) and found Breger's to be the most clinically informed and fair of them all.
Breger set out to dismantle the many myths surrounding the history of Freud and psychoananlysis. This book is straightforward historical revisionism at its most readable form. He writes of the origins of psychoanalysis and its intellectual development against its historical milieu, that gives the reader a true context in which the movement was born and the reasons why it catapulted into international popularity after the First World War. The text cuts through the folklore and the intentionally generated romance of the subject, revealing a clear well-researched account, which remains as out of the ordinary as the myths themselves.
Even with all of Freud's faults and flaws of personality, his steel-like dogmatism and refusal to accept any further developments (contrary to his own) from his followers or divergence from his questionable theories, continues to incite interest and fascination generation after generation. It is his utter strength of personality that was his true genius, that reaches out from the past and grabs our attention. To dismiss this highly original thinker is a mistake. And Louis Breger's ~Freud - Darkness in the Midst of Vision~ emphasises this fact in a lucid, fresh and graceful manner.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Analyst, Analyze Thyself! -- Wonderful book.
By Rafael Chodos
This is a fine book which is well-written on many levels. The style is lucid and friendly: Dr. Breger's writing is surprisingly accessible even to lay people like me.
Many of the insights it offers into Freud's own thinking and development are original and valuable. For instance, the fact that Freud, wanting to become a "great scientist", chose for his models revolutionaries like Kepler and Darwin rather than healers like Pasteur and Koch [Intro. p. 2] struck me right from the outset as an eye-opening observation. The fact that some of Freud's most famous theories were developed utterly without any scientific backup or citation to experimental/ observational evidence (such as the theory of penis envy, discussed at several places in the book but particularly at 332-334) comes to light in the pages of this book with humor, wit, and great persuasive force. Viewed purely as a critique of Freud, this book is wonderful because it presents an original and persuasive view which I don't think has ever been seen before. It is useful also because by reading it, you may re-visit all the reading about Freud you did in your college days, and it is satisfying to have such an overview available in one book that's fun to read.
But the book is interesting also because of the extraordinary vividness with which it portrays Freud's world: the Jewish ghetto, and the intellectual world of Vienna before WWII. If you read this book for no other purpose than to dip yourself into that world, and to remind yourself of the ideals to which its inhabitants subscribed, you will still be satisfied and edified.
Dr. Breger is a professional psychoanalyst, and the "point of view" reflected in these pages shows both sharp powers of observation and, at the same, time, the kind of warmth that only serious professionals can develop when they are committed - as Dr. Breger seems to be - to helping people. Freud is of course beyond help, although it seems he might have benefitted from a course of therapy with this author! But Dr. Breger speaks in a tone of voice that makes us feel that he wants to help us, his readers, see something clearly and move out of any fixation with respect to Freud in which we might have been trapped.
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