Freud In Cambridge
by John Forrester /
2017 / English / PDF
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Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the
twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but
his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World
Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold,
buried under different accounts of the dissemination of
psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a
fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set
of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind, sexuality
and the unconscious, affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G.
Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell, Bernal, Strachey
and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of
disciplines, from biology to anthropology, and from philosophy to
psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be
welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians
and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and
scientific life.
Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the
twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but
his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World
Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold,
buried under different accounts of the dissemination of
psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a
fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set
of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind, sexuality
and the unconscious, affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G.
Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell, Bernal, Strachey
and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of
disciplines, from biology to anthropology, and from philosophy to
psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be
welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians
and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and
scientific life.