| Looking Through Freud's Photos Contributor(s): Molnar, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367102005 ISBN-13: 9780367102005 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 150.2 |
| Series: Karnac History of Psychoanalysis |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna, and the document to which it is attached, throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin, Tom Seidmann Freud, emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. |
Contributor Bio(s): Molnar, Michael: - Michael Molnar was employed as researcher at the Freud Museum in London from 1986 to 2003, and as director from 2003 to 2009. He translated and annotated Freud's 1930s diary notes, published as The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-39. He has published numerous contributions to the history of psychoanalysis in Luzifer-Amor, Psychoanalysis and History and elsewhere. |