Intimate Friends, Dangerous Rivals: The Turbulent Relationship Between Freud and Jung

Schultz, Duane P.

ISBN 10: 0874775493 / ISBN 13: 9780874775495

Published by J P Tarcher, 1990

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J P Tarcher, 1990, First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939; C. G. Jung, 1975-1961. The two giants of modern psychology met for the first time in 1907 in Freud's home in Vienna. An ill-matched pair whose friendship and collaboration began on that day, they went on to promote psychoanalysis around the world. Their dependence on one another soured over time and ended in stormy controversy. They had crucial differences over the primacy of sexuality, the nature of the unconscious, and the place of religion and mythology in human development. This book is a vivid portrayal of a friendship and their differences. Binding of black cloth gilt titled, very clean and unmarked with bumping of upper front spine edge, else fine. Internals in Fine Condition. Clean unclipped jacket has slight wear around spine head. 247 pages. 1990, J P Tarcher, USA ISBN10: 0874775493, ISBN13: 9780874775495.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intimate Friends, Dangerous Rivals: The Turbulent Relationship Between Freud and Jung
• Publisher: J P Tarcher
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874775493
• ISBN 13: 9780874775495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography. Autobiography., Literature, Psycholo...

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Synopsis

Describes psychology's founding in Zurich and Vienna, focusing on the details of the collaboraton and stormy parting of Freud and Jung

Reviews

To Schultz, the relationship between Freud and Jung was a spiral of mutal dependence, a foredoomed Oedipal drama. Freud found in the Swiss analyst a submissive son, while, for Jung, Freud was spiritual guide and surrogate father. Psychologist and University of South Florida professor Schultz succumbs to oversimplifications, and his overblown style can be annoying. Nevertheless, his brisk, devastatingly intimate study is rewarding. The duo's relationship is analyzed in the context of their personal lives. Jung embarked on a love affair with a patient, Toni Wolff, and would juggle a 30-year triangular relationship with her and his own wife. Possibly to make Freud jealous, Jung found a submissive disciple of his own, a young, unstable Swiss psychiatrist, Johann Honegger, whom he misdiagnosed and who later committed suicide. Freud, who diagnosed himself as having anxiety neurosis caused by coitus interruptus with his wife, found an outlet in his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays, who, in Schultz's view, "occupied a central position in Freud's emotional life." Whether they actually had an affair remains speculative.
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Schultz has fairly successfully walked a thin line between biography and a People expose. Focusing on the continued interest in the friendly rivalry between Freud and Jung, Schultz examines the issues that brought them together during the foundation of the psychoanalytic movement and later tore them apart. However, he does not leave out the juicy details of their extramarital affairs, drug use, or psychoanalysis of one another's motives. Based on English-language materials, the work is easy, interesting reading and has copious footnotes for those who are interested in reading the primary sources. Photographs of persons mentioned in the text would have added to enjoyment of the book. Index not seen. Recommended for medium to large public and most academic libraries.
- Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ. Lib., Tallahassee
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