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Loading... A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielreinby John Kerr
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "Algumas vezes, quando uma pessoa não consegue se fazer entender, é possível que a culpa seja dela própria. Talvez por estar falando de forma obscura; talvez por reclamar demais; talvez por falar de forma muito pessoal. E, talvez, Spielrein pudesse ser incluída nos três casos. Mas, analisando bem, não se pode culpá-la por sua incapacidade de conquistar o reconhecimento para suas conclusões sobre a repressão; os culpados foram Freud e Jung. Preocupados com suas próprias teorias, e cada um com o outro, os dois simplesmente não se dispuseram a acolher as idéias dessa jovem colega, e muito menos a oferecer ajuda para que ela encontrasse uma expressão apropriada para seus pensamentos. Pior ainda, ambos em particular justificaram seu descaso, recolocando-a implicitamente no papel de paciente, como se isso de alguma forma impedisse alguém de ter sua própria opinião ou visão. O fato de uma manobra retórica tão desleal, tão em desacordo com a vocação essencial do novo método terapêutico, ter sido empregada tão facilmente, foi e ainda é um aspecto negativo na história da evolução da psicanálise. Na grande disputa entre Freud e Jung para sistematizar a teoria psicanalítica, para codificá-la de uma vez por todas, perdeu-se de vista uma verdade mais simples: algumas vezes, uma pessoa não é entendida porque não recebe a devida atenção." - John Kerr ( )
Kerr is at his best when showing how inevitable it was that psychoanalysis be plagued by sectarianism and, in its reconstituted core, patched together by enforced ideological conformity. Running through this book, subtly but insistently, is a parallel between psychoanalysis and a modern totalitarian regime in which propaganda campaigns and heresy trials come to preempt free debate. That analogy becomes inescapable when Kerr recounts the activity of Freud's top-secret "Committee," convened in 1912 by none other than Freud's official biographer-to-be, Ernest Jones, and taking as its mission the shielding of Freud from criticism by promulgating whatever his latest line might be and by heaping ridicule on his opponents. This Orwellian project, which continued until 1926 and remained undisclosed until 1944, guaranteed that the sounding board for Freud's newest fancies, like those of any insecure dictator, would be an echo chamber. Has the adaptation
"Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant." --Newsday NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Directed by David Cronenberg and starring Keira Knightly, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel. nbsp; In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself. With the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy, A Dangerous Method is impossible to put down. No library descriptions found. |
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