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Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
Perseus Books Group
April 2007
On Sale: March 30, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0306815559
EAN: 9780306815553
Hardcover
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A life of the man who built international psychoanalysis and
rescued Freud, by the acclaimed biographer of Nora: The Real
Molly Bloom. The saturation of the English-speaking world with Freudian
psychoanalytic concepts was due largely to one brilliant
analyst, Ernest Jones. As Freud's disciple, colleague,
biographer, and empire builder, he led the international
psychoanalytic movement and moved its vortex from Vienna to
London, and its influence to Toronto, New York, and Boston.
While negotiating the ferocious politics and rivalry of the
movement, Jones also managed an imposing series of liaisons
that included an heiress and her maid, analysands, and a
"Druid Bride." Jones, unlike Freud, never had to wonder
"what do women want?" From Jones's first encounter with Freud's writings as a
medical student to the eve of World War II, when he
orchestrated the master's escape to London a hairsbreadth
away from the death camps, Maddox lays bare a dark and
creative era, and a colorfully flawed but powerfully
influential man.
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