Freud And Beyond
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Copyright © 1995 by Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black.
Published by BasicBooks, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of Amer ica. No part of this book may be re produced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief ^quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For informa tion, a4drcss BasicBooks, lO East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299.
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Library of Co ngress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mitchell, Stephen A., 1946Freud and beyond : a history of mod ern psychoanalytic thought / Stephen A.
Mitchell, Margaret J. Black,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-465-01404-6
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Psychoanalysis—History. 3. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
I. Black, Margaret (Margaret J.). II. Title.
BF173.M546 1995
155.19'5—dc20
95-8972
CIP
95 96 97 98 •/HC 9 8 7 6 5 4 3*2 1
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SIGMUND-FREUD AND THE CLASSICAL
P S t ^ H O A N A L Y T I C T R A DI T I O N
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Very deep is the well of the pf st. . .. For the deeper we sound, the further down into the lowqr world of the past we probe and press, thq jnore do we find that the earliest foundations of humanity, its, history and culture, reveal themselves unfath omable. —Thomas Mann
In 1873, when Freud w as seventeen, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann put together clues from fragmentary historical and literary sources and located the ancient city of
Troy on the coastal plain of what is. now Turkey. Perhaps no other event so fired the imagination of Freud,-who tended to draw his inspiration from ancient heroes such as Moses and Hannibal. Later, Freud's consulting room came to resemble :the office of an archaeologist, filled with primitive sculp tures and relics. The site of Freud's dig was not the earth but the minds of his patients; the tools he used were not a shovel and brushes but psycho analytic interpretations. The exhilaration was the
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Copyright © 1995 by Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black.
Published by BasicBooks, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of Amer ica. No part of this book may be re produced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief ^quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For informa tion, a4drcss BasicBooks, lO East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299.
Designed by Elliott Beard
_2
^
Library of Co ngress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mitchell, Stephen A., 1946Freud and beyond : a history of mod ern psychoanalytic thought / Stephen A.
Mitchell, Margaret J. Black,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-465-01404-6
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Psychoanalysis—History. 3. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
I. Black, Margaret (Margaret J.). II. Title.
BF173.M546 1995
155.19'5—dc20
95-8972
CIP
95 96 97 98 •/HC 9 8 7 6 5 4 3*2 1
1
SIGMUND-FREUD AND THE CLASSICAL
P S t ^ H O A N A L Y T I C T R A DI T I O N
r
Very deep is the well of the pf st. . .. For the deeper we sound, the further down into the lowqr world of the past we probe and press, thq jnore do we find that the earliest foundations of humanity, its, history and culture, reveal themselves unfath omable. —Thomas Mann
In 1873, when Freud w as seventeen, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann put together clues from fragmentary historical and literary sources and located the ancient city of
Troy on the coastal plain of what is. now Turkey. Perhaps no other event so fired the imagination of Freud,-who tended to draw his inspiration from ancient heroes such as Moses and Hannibal. Later, Freud's consulting room came to resemble :the office of an archaeologist, filled with primitive sculp tures and relics. The site of Freud's dig was not the earth but the minds of his patients; the tools he used were not a shovel and brushes but psycho analytic interpretations. The exhilaration was the