thematic claim that Freud should be understood primarily not as a "pure psychologist" but as a "biologist of the mind" is hardly new. The neurological and evolutionary inputs into Freud have been traced and accepted by most recent scholars. Second, Dr. Sulloway offers his book as "comprehensive". Despite its 600 pages, it certainly isn't. The development of Freud's views after about 1900 is qui...

R. ANDREW PASKAUSKAS (ed.), The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. xlix, 836, £29.95 (0-674-15423-1). EVA BRABANT, ERNST FALZEDER, PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH (eds), The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sdnder Ferenczi, 1908-14, vol. 1, transl. Peter T. Hoffer, Cambridge, M...

This paper addresses the emergence of the ‘death drive’ in Sigmund Freud’s later work, and the significance of this development for his psychoanalytic theory as a whole. In particular, the paper argues that the ‘death drive’ is a pivotal concept, articulating a connection between what are commonly understood as the ‘lower’ and ‘higher’ functions of the psyche. Moreover, the death drive is pivot...

I knew there was something a little old-fashioned about my psychoanalytic training institute when I saw a note in the catalog mentioning that smoking was permitted in the building -Smoking? In New York? In the workplace? -but only in the director's office. Ah, of course. I immediately thought of Freud and his famous cigars. The director is a small, elderly gentleman with a white beard and a hea...

cognitive theories of forgetting. FOR many years the central role accorded to mechanisms of psychological defence was one of the characteristics that divided psychoanalytic theory and therapy from behavioural and cognitive therapies. Throughout his life Freud claimed that the purpose of psychoanalytic therapy was to lift the repression that excluded unacceptable mental contents from awareness i...

Representations of Sigmund Freud in early 21st century US American novels rely on and respond to the image of Freud that emerged from investigations by Paul Roazen ("Brother Animal," 1969) and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ("The Assault on Truth," 1984), which cast doubt on the validity of the Oedipus complex. Relying on Roazen, Brenda Webster's "Vienna Triangle" (2009) links Freud's oedipal thinki...

In 1894, the Polish neurologist Edward Flatau (1868-1932), working in Berlin, published an exquisite photographic atlas of the unfixed human brain, preceding by 2 years Das Menschenhirn, the reference work of Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919) in Stockholm. In his early career as a neuroanatomist and neurologist, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) wrote a review of Flatau's atlas for the Internationale klinisch...

NORMAN KIELL, Freud without hindsight: reviews of his work, 1893-1939, Madison, Conn., International Universities Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 758, $65.00. The history of the reception of Freud's work has long been a matter of discussion. Freud felt deeply isolated in the scientific world up to the first years of this century. But was this feeling in accordance with the facts, or merely his very...

out of the minds of the monks he has had psychoanalysed by a distinguished Jewish woman, but also how to purge his own brain of such poison. The man is Gregoire Lemercier, the sixth of an artillery officer's thirteen children who feared his father and at the same time wanted to emulate him. When he became a priest he transferred his complex to God. His autoanalytical sermons bloom with double f...