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Book Synopsis In 1900, hardly anyone in America had heard of Sigmund Freud, but by 1920 nearly everyone had. This is the story of the translators, editors, journalists, publishers, promoters and booksellers who first brought Freud to American readers. They included scientists and scoundrels, reckless risk-takers and buttoned-down businessmen, puritans and libertines, anarchists and capitalists, passionate freedom fighters and racist bigots. American publishers, Freud wrote to one colleague, are a dangerous breed. Elsewhere he called them rascals, liars, swindlers, crooks, and pirates.
Here are accounts of their drunken parties, political crusades, questionable business practices, criminal prosecutions, shameless marketing, and blatant plagiarism. There''s even a suicide and a murder. And lots of sex (it''s a book about Freud, after all). Ideas that Freud promoted are woven so tightly into our daily lives today that, like gravity or air, we hardly notice them. This book, based on hundr
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: "No ideas but in things"TimelinePeoplePublishers 1. Anarchists and Alienists, 1882–1900 2. Jelliffe's and White's Medical Monographs, 1908–1917 3. Freud's Lectures at Clark University, 1909 4. The Mainstream Press Discovers Freud, 1910–1912 5. George Brett Puts Freud into Bookstores, 1913–1914 6. Freud Among the Bohemians, 1914–1918 7. Dr. William Robinson, Crusader and Crank, 1915 8. Moffat, Yard and Co. Capitalize on the "New Psychology," 1915–1918 9. Freud Among the Censors10. Horace Liveright Bets on Freud, 1920–192411. André Tridon, Boldest of the Pirates, 192112. Freud in the Modern Library, 1924 and AfterEpilogue: Freud's Books at Mid-CenturyAppendix: First American Editions of Freud, 1900–1924Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex
