Freud in Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 2/21/2019
EAN 9781108713023, ISBN10: 1108713025
Paperback, 718 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm
Language: English
Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold, buried under different accounts of the dissemination of psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind, sexuality and the unconscious affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G. Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell, Bernal, Strachey and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of disciplines, from biology to anthropology, and from philosophy to psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life.
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Tansley's dream
3. W. H. R. Rivers, the English Freud
4. Becoming Freudian in Cambridge - undergraduates and psychoanalysis
5. Discipline formation - psychology, English, philosophy
6. The 1925 group
7. The Malting House Garden School
8. A psychoanalytic debate in 1925
9. Bloomsbury analysts
10. Freud in Cambridge?
Bibliography
Index.