Freud´s Vienna & Other Essays

Zu diesem Buch

The eminent psychoanalyst and child psychologist, world-famous for his pioneering work with severely disturbed children and for his revelatory study of fairy tales, The Uses of Enchantment, now brings together eighteen essays (some in print for the first time) in a book that will stand as a testimony to the abiding and wide-ranging concerns of a lifetime.
In the title essay, Dr. Bettelheim looks at the cultural and historical ambiance of his native Vienna and makes clear why it was such fertile soil for Freud's study of neurosis.

The essays that follow include a passionate defense of Freud's humanism, and a persuasive argument that Ernest Jones's "definitive" biography of Freud is as revealing a self-portrait of the biographer as it is a portrayal of its subject. Bettelheim debunks the myth of the "wolf boy," making an eloquent case for his now widely accepted theory that children described as feral have actually been autistic. He tells how Anne Sullivan's work with Helen Keller anticipated his own "milieu therapy" for autism. He writes about his childhood and the cultural, intellectual, and emotional experiences that shaped his life—and suggests ways in which we can enrich the lives and imaginations of our own children. He returns to Dachau (where he was incarcerated in 1938); he ponders the psychological wounds of the children of survivors; he wams of the dangers of what he calls "ghetto thinking" —the tendency of Jews to isolate themselves, which he feels contributed to the tragedy of the Holocaust.

This is an important collection that sums up Dr. Bettelheim's life and work, a book that moves us through its unique insights and its great wisdom.

Aus dem Inhalt

On Freud and Psychoanalysis

• Freud´s Vienna
• Berggasse 19
• How I Learned About Psychoanalysis
• Two Views of Freud (Jones´s and Fromm´s)
• A Secret Asymmetry
• Lionel Trilling on Literature and Psychoanalysis

On Children and Myself

• Essential Books of One´s Life 
• The Art of Motion Pictures
• The Child´s Perception of the City
• Children and Museums
• Children and Television
• Master Teacher and Prodigious Pupil
• Feral Children and Autistic Children

On Jews and the Camps

• Janusz Korczak: A Tale for Our Time
• Hope for Humanity
• Children of the Holocaust
• Returning to Dachau
• Freedom from Ghetto Thinking

Über den Autor

Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna, and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He is Distinguished Professor of Education Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. In 1977, he won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Uses of Enchantment.

Zum Erhaltungszustand

Hier als ein ungelesenes und entsprechend wohlerhaltenes Archivexemplar der amerikanischen Erstausgabe aus dem renommierten A. Knopf Verlag in New York; dort vergriffen.