Freud’s Discovery of Psychoanalysis by William J McGrath

The Politics of Hysteria

McGrath poses the thesis that the thrust and form of Freud’s creativity is the result of the interplay between psychological and emotional factors and the historical, and political events of fin de siecle Vienna. His book offers ample, impressive, and always intriguing evidence in support of that thesis. McGrath has given us an insightful, sensitively reasoned, and balanced book that should help resolve at least some of the contradictory views of Freud and his work that have emerged in recent years. It is a psycho-historical document of major proportions in the field – and a highly readable one at that.”

Published 1986 by Cornell University

Printed in the USA

Paperback copy. Foxing to edges but otherwise a good copy.

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