The Foundation of the Unconscious Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche
The Foundation of the Unconscious Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche
The historiography of psychoanalysis needs radical revision. This book poses the question: where does psychoanalysis begin? Which is to ask both when can we begin with it historically, and how exactly does it emerge? The conventional answer to those questions has, for many decades, been the one provided by Freud himself: that it begins in Vienna, out of a combination of Freud's private clinical work with neurotics, his collaboration with Josef Breuer in the treatment of hysteria, and the period
