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First published in 1992, Freud's Women quickly established itself as an invaluable study of the women who peopled Freud's world--women who, as relatives and friends, patients and disciples, helped him to found the new discipline of psychoanalysis. Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester tell a fascinating and complicated story with great flair: Freud's Women is as scholarly as it is readable, moving between biography and theory to chart the intellectual history of psychoanalysis.
As the authors point out at the beginning of this study, when it comes to the "woman question", history has often taken the form of a trial (of Freud, of psychoanalysis). This revised edition of the book stays with the four key themes used to organise the authors' discussion ("The Freud Family Romance", "Inventing Psychoanalysis", "A Woman's Profession", "The Question of Femininity"), concluding with a new "Summing Up" which takes up the recent "assaults" on Freud launched by, amongst others, Frederick Crews and Peter Swales. In the wake of the so-called "Memory Wars"--wars which reopened discussion about the origins of psychoanalysis at the same time as questioning Freud's views on the "reality" of child sexual abuse--the culture of psychoanalysis, its claims to individuality and privacy, have been increasingly under attack.
Against the commonplace that psychoanalysis--as both theory of mind and therapeutic practice--is "in crisis", Appignanesi and Forrester offer a balanced and intelligent account of the vicissitudes of Freud's theory of femininity and the different ways in which "his women"--from 'Dora' to Joan Riviere, from Lou Andreas-Salome to Helene Deutsch--have worked with, and against, that theory to support the insights of a remarkable discipline.--Vicky Lebeau --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Very well researched & written account of Freud through the lives and times of "his women". They're all here. His mother, his wife, his famous hysterical patients from Anna O onwards, his powerful collaborators - Marie Bonaparte, Lou Andreas-Salome, and ending with Freud's "Antigone" - his daughter Anna, who consolidated his work and nurtured his legacy. By concentrating on Freud's Women, Appignanesi & Forrester have found an ingenious way of putting Freud into his social context in Vienna, and highlighting the issue of whether patriarchal (phallocentric) values are implicit in Freudian psychoanalysis. The research is fascinating (including lots of insights into the after-lives of the famous patients), and it's written in a lively and stylish manner, without a whiff of jargon.
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A very comprehensive study of the women in Freud's life and the affect of his theories on what it means to be female.
A lot of detail on his patients who went on to become analysts. I would have liked to have read more about his mother and sisters but I expect that the authors did their best with the material that was available to them. I felt like I knew a lot about Freud's daughter Anna by the end of the book but that his wife remained an enigma. I also felt that for a book that was openly exploring Freud's psychosexual theories there was a certain caginess about Freud's own private life and sexuality, I wasn't sure if he had affairs with his women friends or not, that aspect of his life and practice was protectively never addressed.
I prefered the biographical section of the book. I found the last chapters, that dealt with Freud's theories of femininity, too detailed and a bit repetitive. I got a bit fed up with the clitoris versus vagina debate, the same with penis envy and how various groups have viewed it. It was important to hear the arguments but for me there was too much detail.
Overall I felt that the book evoked the lives and times of this remarkable set of people very well. I admired their dedicated striving to understand the psyche. Some of the theories may seem outdated, some even comical. I would love to see Lou Andreas-Salome's drama The Devil and his Grandmother about "..a mischievous excremental devil who lives in his own grandmother's bottom.."! It seemed to me that what most of these women envied about men was not their penises but their education and the opportunity to make a difference in the world, for some psychoanalysis and their relationship with Freud gave them this opportunity.
A lot of detail on his patients who went on to become analysts. I would have liked to have read more about his mother and sisters but I expect that the authors did their best with the material that was available to them. I felt like I knew a lot about Freud's daughter Anna by the end of the book but that his wife remained an enigma. I also felt that for a book that was openly exploring Freud's psychosexual theories there was a certain caginess about Freud's own private life and sexuality, I wasn't sure if he had affairs with his women friends or not, that aspect of his life and practice was protectively never addressed.
I prefered the biographical section of the book. I found the last chapters, that dealt with Freud's theories of femininity, too detailed and a bit repetitive. I got a bit fed up with the clitoris versus vagina debate, the same with penis envy and how various groups have viewed it. It was important to hear the arguments but for me there was too much detail.
Overall I felt that the book evoked the lives and times of this remarkable set of people very well. I admired their dedicated striving to understand the psyche. Some of the theories may seem outdated, some even comical. I would love to see Lou Andreas-Salome's drama The Devil and his Grandmother about "..a mischievous excremental devil who lives in his own grandmother's bottom.."! It seemed to me that what most of these women envied about men was not their penises but their education and the opportunity to make a difference in the world, for some psychoanalysis and their relationship with Freud gave them this opportunity.
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An exhaustive, in-depth look at the women involved
11 May 2002
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Collaboratively written by Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester, Freud's Women: Family, Patients, Followers is an exhaustive, in-depth look at the women involved in the life and work of Sigmund Freud, who is often thought of as the father of modern psychology. Freud's many female patients, followers, and family members are surveyed and discussed in an informative blend of biography, history, and study of the founding of psychoanalysis. An exhaustively researched and detailed book, Freud's Women is very highly recommended for the History of Psychoanalysis academic reference collections, and Freudian Psychology supplement reading lists.
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