Freud and the Child Woman the Memoirs of Fritz Wittels
- List Price: $65.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/1996
Description:
Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, Karl Kraus. Towards the end of his life, while living and practising as an analyst in the United States, Wittels wrote a two-hundred-page memoir of his early life and career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, held in the archives of the Abraham Brill Library, New York, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, they have been deftly edited, contextualised and introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the 'child woman' of the title. In his memoirs Wittels writes frankly and vividly about the erotic sub-culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and about early controversies within the Psychoanalytic Society. His picture of the interaction between the two is startlingly original, and will appeal not only to historians of psychoanalysis, but to anyone interested in the Viennese cultural avant-garde. The erotic triangles in which Wittels, Kraus and Freud were involved are shown to have impinged directly on the activities of the famous Society. Freud himself plays a crucial role in the story, and the book as a whole is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis.
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
Basement Seller 101
Very Good
|
$2.81
|
|
Books From California
Very Good |
$3.95
|
|
HPB-Movies
Good
|
$5.06
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$6.63
|
|
Bingo Used Books
Like New
|
$7.78
|
|
Saucony Book Shop
Like New |
$8.43
|
|
J. Hood, Booksellers, Inc.
Like New
|
$11.25
|
|
Montclair Book Center
Good
|
$11.25
|
|
Poverty Hill Books
New
|
$13.45
|
|
Alphaville Books
Very Good |
$14.06
|
|
Gail P Kennon Book-Comber
Very Good |
$14.62
|
|
Powell's Books Chicago
Very Good |
$16.87
|
|
Books and Music
New
|
$45.00
|
|
Between the Covers-Rare Books
Like New |
$45.00
|
|
GridFreed
New |
$66.83
|
Please Wait