Freud on a Precipice: How Freud's Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge

by Robert Langs

Freud on a Precipice is an exploration of eight likely early-life traumas experienced by Sigmund Freud and an effort to show how their unconscious processing adversely affected the psychoanalytic theory he forged beginning in the late 1890's. Using a new method to decode key narratives in Freud's opus, Langs makes a compelling argument for the probability that Freud was never sure of the identity of his biological father. The book also offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765706008
• ISBN13: 9780765706003
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"