Freud and the Child Woman

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-02-01
Publisher(s): Yale Univ Pr
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Summary

Fritz Wittels (1880-1950) was a pioneering Viennese psychoanalyst, the first biographer of Freud (1924), and intermittently friend and rival of Freud himself, of Wilhelm Stekel, and of their famous satirical adversary, Karl Kraus. Towards the end of his life, while living and practising as an analyst in the United States, Wittels wrote a two-hundred-page memoir of his early life and career in Vienna. The typescript memoirs, held in the archives of the Abraham Brill Library, New York, are published here for the first time, accompanied by a range of little-known illustrations. Incomplete in places, they have been deftly edited, contextualised and introduced by Edward Timms, whose many valuable explanatory notes include the identification of the 'child woman' of the title.
In his memoirs Wittels writes frankly and vividly about the erotic sub-culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and about early controversies within the Psychoanalytic Society. His picture of the interaction between the two is startlingly original, and will appeal not only to historians of psychoanalysis, but to anyone interested in the Viennese cultural avant-garde. The erotic triangles in which Wittels, Kraus and Freud were involved are shown to have impinged directly on the activities of the famous Society. Freud himself plays a crucial role in the story, and the book as a whole is of exceptional importance for the origins of psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Editor's Preface
Introduction: Wrestling with the Manp. 1
Childhood in Viennap. 4
Freud and the Vienna Medical Schoolp. 24
Kraus and the Neue Freie Pressep. 35
Spiritual Fathersp. 45
The Child Womanp. 56
The Rupturep. 76
The Scandalp. 99
Reconciliationp. 111
America: Making Amendsp. 128
Freud in Americap. 144
Commentary: The Wittels Memoirs in Contextp. 153
Index of Namesp. 185
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