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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the 20th century, Freud said late in his career, but it did not drop from the skies ready-made. This is a re-assessment of Freud and the historical development of pyschoanalysis.
Trade Review"This is a major work of cultural and intellectual history. . . . A landmark in the interpretation of psychoanalysis in its genesis and emergence, it is also a major explanation of how we came to view the subject the way many or most people do today." -- J. Hillis Miller * University of California, Irvine *
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Sciences of the Flesh is a demanding, but rich study, and a short review cannot do it justice. It has made me want to return to Freud, understanding him as a part of nineteenth-century psychology, and not as its nemesis." * Victorian Studies *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: flesh, ghost, and history; 1. A rhetoric of hysteria; 2. Toujours la chose genitale; 3. Experiments made by nature; 4. Fat and blood, and how to make them; 5. The logic of sex; 6. Scenes of discovery; 7. Stories of suffering; Conclusion: psychoanalysis proper; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
