Freud's Patients
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
An absorbing, moving sequence of portraits of the men and women treated by Sigmund Freud.
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen untersucht das Konstrukt psychischer „Fakten“ und betont, wie historische Berichte über psychische Störungen mit fortlaufenden Neudefinitionen verknüpft sind. Seine Arbeit, geprägt von der französischen poststrukturalistischen Philosophie, befasst sich tiefgehend mit der Geschichte und Philosophie der Psychiatrie und Psychoanalyse. Borch-Jacobsen ist bekannt für seine polemischen Haltungen in anhaltenden Debatten über die Psychoanalyse. Sein Ansatz beleuchtet, wie historische und soziale Kontexte psychische Zustände aktiv formen.


An absorbing, moving sequence of portraits of the men and women treated by Sigmund Freud.
An Introduction
In this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud's theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and culture, highlighting their indebtedness to contemporary neurophysiological and biological assumptions. The picture of Freud that emerges is very different from that of the fact-finding scientist he claimed to be. Bold conceptual innovations - repression, infantile sexuality, the Oedipus complex, narcissism, the death drive - were not discoveries made by Freud, but speculative constructs placed on clinical material to satisfy the requirements of the general theory of the mind and culture that he was building. Freud's Thinking provides a final accounting of this mirage of the mind that was psychoanalysis.