Identificacion sigmund freud biography book

Before we go into your five book choices, could you say a little bit about your personal involvement with Freud? I know you’ve been involved in a number of ways with Freud and Freudian projects.

Identificacion sigmund freud biography book

I guess I first directly engaged with Freud as a reader. That’s an intimate relationship, isn’t it? I studied literature at university, back in the sixties and inevitably Freud came up. I read more when I was writing my PhD—about femininity.

Then, by sheer coincidence, I went to work at a social research firm in New York.

Identificacion sigmund freud biography book pdf

This was back in the early 70s. The woman who had brought me in and was one of the partners of the firm was the daughter of a leading psychoanalyst. So I started to learn about psychoanalysis in a different way by meeting analysts, and I grew a little more familiar with a way of thinking.

I was a writer in residence for this firm and the book I wrote based on their research was then published by a psychoanalytic press who asked me if I w