Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 204 pages
Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
Six Names in Search of an Interpretation
54
Freud and Freedom
75
Reading Freud Through Freuds Reading
95
ENTERTAINMENTS
127
Serious Jests
133
The Forgotten Freud
152
A Gentile Science?
160
Bibliographical Essay
181
Acknowledgments
195
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Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.

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