Overview
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Tras dĂ©cadas de hagiografĂas y de condenas encendidas, resulta muy complicado saber hoy en dĂa quiĂ©n fue Sigmund Freud. Sin embargo, despuĂ©s de la publicaciĂłn de las Ăşltimas biografĂas de referencia se han abierto nuevos archivos a los investigadores y lo fundamental de la correspondencia ya es accesible. Por tanto, este es un momento inmejorable para volver a un hombre y una obra sobre la que quedaba mucho que decir. El fundador del psicoanálisis era, para empezar, un vienĂ©s de la Belle Epoque , sĂşbdito del Imperio austrohĂşngaro, heredero de la IlustraciĂłn alemana y judĂa. En cuanto al psicoanálisis en sĂ, es fruto de un esfuerzo colectivo, de un cenáculo en el cual Freud dio vĂa libre a su fascinaciĂłn por lo irracional y las ciencias ocultas, convirtiendo a veces a sus amigos en enemigos, ejerciendo de Fausto pero tambiĂ©n de MefistĂłfeles. Pensador moderno, pero conservador en polĂtica, nunca dejĂł de actuar de modo contradictorio con su obra, siempre en nombre de la RazĂłn y de las Luces.
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Aquà está Freud en su tiempo, en su familia, rodeado de sus colecciones, con sus mujeres, sus hijos, sus perros; enfrentado al pesimismo ante el auge de los extremismos, lleno de dudas a la hora de emprender su exilio londinense, donde morirá. Pero también le veremos en el nuestro, alimentando nuestras preguntas con sus propias dudas, sus fracasos y sus pasiones. Ganadora de los premios literarios franceses Prix Decèmbre y Prix de Prix y traducida a 25 idiomas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud’s biography for the twenty-first century―a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.
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Roudinesco traces Freud’s life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household to his final days in London, a refugee of the Nazis’ annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu of fin de siècle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg Empire―an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig, and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire.
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Yet this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the analytically minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his intellectual complexity―the numerous tensions in his character and thought that remained unresolved―Roudinesco ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as the master interpreter of civilization and culture.
This book title, Sigmund Freud: En su tiempo y el nuestro / Freud: In His Time and Ours, ISBN: 9788466361392, by Élisabeth Roudinesco, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (January 24, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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