On the Couch
Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
Andrew Blauner
- 352 pages
- English
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On the Couch
Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
Andrew Blauner
Ă propos de ce livre
A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers With original contributions by AndrĂ© Aciman âą Sarah Boxer âą Jennifer Finney Boylan âą Susie Boyt âą Gerald Early âą Esther Freud âą Rivka Galchen âą Adam Gopnik âą David Gordon âą Siri Hustvedt âą Sheila Kohler âą Peter D. Kramer âą Phillip Lopate âą Thomas Lynch âą Daphne Merkin âą David Michaelis âą Rick Moody âą Susie Orbach âą Richard Panek âą Alex Pheby âą Michael S. Roth âą Casey Schwartz âą Mark Solms âą Colm TĂłibĂn âą Sherry Turkle W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856â1939) as "a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing lives." The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.Here, Colm TĂłibĂn writes about Freud, World War I, Henry James, and Thomas Mann; Adam Gopnik explores Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents; Susie Orbach considers Freud's "ordinary unhappiness" and D. W. Winnicott's "good enough"; Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on penis envy and gender identity; Peter Kramer describes how new science and drugs have revolutionized psychology since Freud; Susie Boyt, one of Freud's great-granddaughters, spends the night at the Freud Museum in London; Siri Hustvedt examines Freud's divided reception today; and there's much more.Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we see ourselves and the world.