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Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels
by Fritz Wittels
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ISBN Number: 9780300064858
Subtitle: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels
Editor: Timms, Edward
Author: Wittels, Fritz
Adapted: Timms, Edward
Author: Timms, Edward
Publisher: Yale University Press
Location: New Haven :
Subject: General
Subject: Methodology
Subject: Psychoanalysis
Subject: Freud, sigmund, 1856-1939
Subject: Medical
Subject: Psychoanalysts
Subject: Freud, sagmund, 1856-1939
Subject: Psychoanalysis, History.
Subject: Research, Methodology.
Subject: Methodology x
Subject: Movements, Behaviorism
Subject: PSY045010
Copyright: 1996
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume: 79
Publication Date: January 1996
Cover Type: Hardcover
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 200
Book Size: 9.46x6.37x.87 in. 1.27 lbs.
Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, Karl Kraus. Towards the end of his life, while living and practising as an analyst in the United States, Wittels wrote a two-hundred-page memoir of his early life and career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, held in the archives of the Abraham Brill Library, New York, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, they have been deftly edited, contextualised and introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the 'child woman' of the title. In his memoirs Wittels writes frankly and vividly about the erotic sub-culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and about early controversies within the Psychoanalytic Society. His picture of the interaction between the two is startlingly original, and will appeal not only to historians of psychoanalysis, but to anyone interested in the Viennese cultural avant-garde. The erotic triangles in which Wittels, Kraus and Freud were involved are shown to have impinged directly on the activities of the famous Society. Freud himself plays a crucial role in the story, and the book as a whole is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis.
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