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Book SynopsisHere are nearly 700 hundred previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams representing the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his admiring younger colleague, Ernest Jones, who also became his biographer and a principal player in the development of psychoanalysis in England and the United States.
Trade ReviewFreud and Jones put psychoanalysis on the map; a feat neither could have performed alone. While the present volume adds to our knowledge of psychoanalysis’s strange history, its real value lies elsewhere. It documents the steps whereby two starkly dissimilar but equally driven men joined forces and changed the world. -- Liam Hudson * Times Literary Supplement *
What makes these 671 items of singular interest—apart from their intrinsic intellectual vividness and historical importance—is that four-fifths of them are in English… Freud’s communications to Jones are written in an absolutely clear, fluent, fascinating, idiosyncratic and sometimes charmingly imperfect English… The forcefulness, intense personal presence and feeling of momentousness and durable commitment to matters of surpassing historical significance are perceptible, indeed palpitant, in every communication, right down to the occasional postcard. -- Steven Marcus * New York Newsday *
Table of ContentsPreface Note on Editorial Method Abbreviations of Works Cited Introduction by Riccardo Steiner Correspondence List of Correspondence References Glossary Index
