Blazing a trail unprecedented in Freud research, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis turns to Freud's original manuscripts to provide a fresh and authentic view of his methods of working, his psychological states, the events of his life, and the development of his thinking. This book is at once a study of Freud's creativity, an authoritative commentary on previously unexplored aspects of his life and work, and an important reference on his own texts.
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Sigmund Freud seems often to be treated more as a cultural icon or lightning rod than as an individual thinker (witness the brouhaha over the proposed Library of Congress exhibition about him last year, which resulted in the event's indefinite postponement). This important book, now available in English for the first time, returns to the fountainhead: Freud's writings. Grubrich-Simitis provides a detailed history of Freud's German-language publications; examines multiple drafts and revisions of certain key works, offering profound insight into Freud's creative process; and a closely argued plea for a new, definitive German-language edition of Freud's oeuvre.
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This study of Freud's actual texts . . . is at once both rigorously technical and of broad general interest. Ms. Grubrich-Simitis is a highly regarded and widely published psychoanalyst in Frankfurt; earlier, she worked for years at S. Fischer Verlag, Freud's postwar publisher in Germany, and served as the editor of various editions of Freud's writings. Her study is an important contribution to the growing understanding of Freud as a mind and as a writer. -- The New York Times Book Review, Steven Marcus
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