Author : Edward Timms
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ISBN 13 : 9780788198274
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis Freud and the Child Woman by : Edward Timms
Download or read book Freud and the Child Woman written by Edward Timms and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Sigmund Freud, & intermittently friend & rival of Freud himself. Towards the end of his life, Wittels wrote a 200-page memoir of his early life & career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, the memoirs have been deftly edited, contextualized & introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the Ôchild woman' of the title. This book is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis. Illustrations.