Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud

Heller, Vivian

ISBN 10: 1913494365 / ISBN 13: 9781913494360

Published by Karnac Books, 2022

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913494365
• ISBN 13: 9781913494360
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

The story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed by Anna Freud. To tell this story Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father's case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive. While in Anna's care, Peter's native Vienna slides into Fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world. He flees to England only to be deported to Canada, where he is interned as a German-speaking foreign national, a situation that put him among Jewish refugees and Nazi P.O.W.’s.

About the Author

Vivian Heller​ received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Modern Studies from Yale University. She is the author of ​Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation (University of Illinois Press) which won the Choice Book Award, and The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway​. Her essays have appeared in ​New Observations,​ the ​Journal of Literature and Medicine,​ and ​The Georgetown Review​; her short fiction has been published in Confrontation,​ ​Bomb, and Fence​. She works at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.