Sigmund Freud: Giants of Science #3

by Kathleen Krull and Boris Kulikov
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Published by: Penguin Group, Inc.
eBook Publish Date: October 19, 2006
Print ISBN: 0670058920
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Sigmund Freud (or "my golden Siggy" as Mama Freud called him) wanted to be "great," "famous"--someone whose statue would stand prominently in parks. And famous he certainly became. But does he qualify as a "Giant of Science"? Kathleen Krull proves Freud deserves a place in her much-lauded series, for essentially creating a brand-new branch of medicine-- psychoanalysis--and a whole new vocabulary to go with it. Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Krull explains Freud and his still-controversial ideas within the context of his time, presenting a fascinating picture of a complicated, often irascible man, as well as the world of 19th-century Vienna where psychoanalysis or "talk therapy" first took root.

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To her outstanding Giants of Science series (Leonardo Da Vinci; Isaac Newton), author Kathleen Krull adds Sigmund Freud, illus. by Boris Kulikov, describing life in 19th-century Vienna and what was known of mental illness before Freud put his theories and psychoanalysis to work. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.