Recollecting Freud - Softcover

Sadger, Isidor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299211045 ISBN 13: 9780299211042

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013

Synopsis

This eyewitness account by one of Sigmund Freud's earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger's recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement and also illuminate Freud's own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical psychoanalysts.

            As a student, Sadger attended Freud's lectures from 1895 through 1904. Although Sadger was not part of Freud's inner circle, he was a participant observer of Freud's early years as teacher, therapist, and clinician. In 1930, Sadger published the biography Sigmund Freud: Persönliche Erinnerungen, but with the rise of Nazism and World War II, the book was almost lost to the world of psychoanalytic history. Recollecting Freud is a long-lost personal account that provides invaluable insights into Freud and his social, cultural, and intellectual context.

About this title

About the Author

Isidor Isaak Sadger (1867–1942), a Viennese neurologist, was one of Freud's earliest and most devoted students. Alan Dundes (1934–2005) was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California. His many books include Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist and The Vampire: A Casebook. Johanna M. Jacobsen received her PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania and is a freelance writer in Seattle.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299211045
• ISBN 13: 9780299211042
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Dundes Alan