On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Blauner, Andrew
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Blauner, Andrew

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring...
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Author: Andrew Blauner
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Blauner, Andrew

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

$67.83
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Blauner, Andrew

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

$67.83
Author: Andrew Blauner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers

With original contributions by André Aciman - Sarah Boxer - Jennifer Finney Boylan - Susie Boyt - Gerald Early - Esther Freud - Rivka Galchen - Adam Gopnik - David Gordon - Siri Hustvedt - Sheila Kohler - Peter D. Kramer - Phillip Lopate - Thomas Lynch - Daphne Merkin - David Michaelis - Rick Moody - Susie Orbach - Richard Panek - Alex Pheby - Michael S. Roth - Casey Schwartz - Mark Solms - Colm Tóibín - Sherry Turkle

W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) as "a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing lives." The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.

Here, Colm Tóibín writes about Freud, World War I, Henry James, and Thomas Mann; Adam Gopnik explores Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents; Susie Orbach considers Freud's "ordinary unhappiness" and D. W. Winnicott's "good enough"; Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on penis envy and gender identity; Peter Kramer describes how new science and drugs have revolutionized psychology since Freud; Susie Boyt, one of Freud's great-granddaughters, spends the night at the Freud Museum in London; Siri Hustvedt examines Freud's divided reception today; and there's much more.

Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we see ourselves and the world.

Author: Andrew Blauner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.51w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780691242439


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2024

About the Author
Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of eight previous anthologies, including Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau (Princeton), Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, and The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life. He is a member of PEN America and he and his work have appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, among other media outlets.
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