Freud's Wishful Dream Book

by Alexander Welsh

Although it is customary to credit Freud's self-analysis, it may be more accurate, Alexander Welsh argues, to say that psychoanalysis began when The Interpretation of Dreams was published in the last... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691037183
• ISBN13: 9780691037189
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A study of Freud-as-novelist

This book goes a long way toward locating Freud in the tradition of the nineteenth-century novel. Welsh (unlike many who tackle Freud these days) is imaginatively equipped to engage with "The Interpretation of Dreams," and approaches the book as one would a literary text, perhaps the only way in which it is possible to read Freud anymore. In doing so he manages to avoid the twin pitfalls of adulation and "Freud-bashing"; "useful" is the way I'd characterize it.