Reading Freud's Reading

by Gilman, Sander L.; Birmele, Jutta; Geller, Jay; Greenberg, Valerie

• ISBN13: 9780814730782
• ISBN10: 0814730787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated personal library.Reading Freud's Readingis a guided tour of this library, the intellectual tools of the genius of Sigmund Freud.Specialists from a wide range of areas--from the history of medicine, to literary scholarship, to the history of classical scholarship--spent two months working on questions raised by Freud's reading and his library at the Freud Museum in London. These specialists are joined here by internationally renowned scholars including Ned Lukatcher, Harold P. Blum, and Michael Molnar to apply a wide range of critical approaches, from depth psychoanalysis to cultural analysis. Together, they present a detailed look at the implications of how, and what, Freud read, including the major sources he used for his work.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Freud's Debut in the Sciences	p. 1
Freud's Reading of Classical Literature and Classical Philology	p. 23
Sigmund Freud and the Sexologists: A Second Reading	p. 47
Reading the Look	p. 77
Freud's Uncanny Woman	p. 91
Freud and the Figure of Moses: The Moses of Freud	p. 109
Strategies of Persuasion: The Case of Leonardo Da Vinci	p. 129
Chiasmatic Reading, Aporetic History: Freud's Macbeth	p. 152
Freud v. Freud: Freud's Readings of Daniel Paul Schreber's Denkwurdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken	p. 180
Freud's Pompeian Fantasy	p. 211
"A Piece of the Logical Thread ... ": Freud and Physics	p. 232
The Bizarre Chair: A Slant on Freud's Light Reading in the 1930s	p. 252
On the Sources of Moses and Monotheism	p. 266
Index	p. 287
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