Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend

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Harvard University Press, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 612 pages
In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as psychoanalytic hero as it served to consolidate the analytic movement. This is a revolutionary reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
vs the Theory of Defense 75 The Estrangement Recon
78
Individual Temperament and Scientific Style 83 Freuds
91
BreuerFreud Collaboration
97
The Choice of Neurosis 102 The Actual
108
Project for a Scientific Psychology 1895
114
spread Misconceptions about the Project
120
The Psychopathology
126
valry and Reductionism 217 The WeiningerSwoboda
223
Constructs
229
Retrospect
235
Freuds Fundamental Mechanisms
264
Pathological Development 264 Freud as PsychoLa
274
Dreams and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life
320
Evolutionary Biology Resolves Freuds Three
361
277
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THE BIRTH OF A GENETIC PSYCHOBIOLOGY
133
for a 23Day Sexual Cycle in Man
160
Freuds Psychoanalytic Transformation
171
Its Periodic Ebb and Flow
179
Fliesss Mathematical Biology of the Id
186
Critical Stages in the Development of the Psychosexual
194
Childhood Sexual Impulses and the Etiology
204
Hysterical Seduction Phantasies 204 Abandonment
210
The Myth of the Hero
445
Epilogue and Conclusion
496
Two Published Accounts Detailing Josef Breuers
507
Dr Felix Gattels Scientific Collaboration with
513
BIBLIOGRAPHY
519
INDEX
577
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Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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