Freud in Cambridge
by John Forrester, Laura Cameron
Cambridge University Press | April 2017 | ISBN-10: 052186190X | PDF | 812 Pages | 40.1 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Freud-Cambridge-John-Forrester/dp/052186190X
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.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations page viii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
1 Introduction 1
2 Tansley’s Dream 7
3 W.H.R. Rivers, the English Freud 57
4 Becoming Freudian in Cambridge: Undergraduates and Psychoanalysis 100
5 Discipline Formation – Psychology, English, Philosophy 203
6 The 1925 Group 363
7 The Malting House Garden School 432
8 A Psychoanalytic Debate in 1925 475
9 Bloomsbury Analysts 505
10 Freud in Cambridge? 613
Bibliography 649
Index 681
