Abstract: For most people, psychoanalysis is still identified almost entirely with the figure, and work, of Sigmund Freud. It is Freud's image that stands out in bookstores; it is Freud who cultural historians, film-makers, novelists and cartoonists take as the embodiment of the psychoanalytic spirit; Freud is the psychoanalyst about whom far and away the largest quantity of biographical and popular essays are written. And it is the theories of Freud, if not Freud's writings themselves, which are explained, read, adulterated, construed and misinterpreted at a far greater rate, and in far more settings, than any other psychoanalytic work. Freud dominates the public face of psychoanalysis, and it is in relation to Freud's ideas, jumbled or accurately understood, that many people measure their own emotions and relationships.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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