Freud and the Child Woman: The Memoirs of Fritz Wittels
by Fritz Wittels
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"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 show more 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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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The vivid memoirs of Viennese psychoanalyst and Freud biographer Fritz Wittels, published here for the first time, recall his early life and career as friend and rival of Freud and of the great critic of psychoanalysis, satirist Karl Kraus. Wittel`s account of the erotic triangle in which he, Kraus, and the "child woman" became involved, and Freud`s crucial role in the controversy, reveals much about the early years of psychoanalysis and about fin de sicle Vienna.
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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- 150.195092 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Emotions, Relationships, & Family Theory And Instruction Systems, schools, viewpoints Psychoanalytic systems History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- BF109 .W58 .A3 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology
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