Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: How psychoanalysis began
3: A case of obsessional neurosis
4: Oedipus
5: Analytic space, time, and technique
6: Politics and upheavals
7: Innovations and controversies
8: Unconscious dramas
9: Concluding remarks
Notes
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and historian. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. He is also an editor of History Workshop Journal, is on the editorial board of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the advisory board of Psychoanalysis and History and Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

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