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Freud's Women

Lisa Appignanesi

John Forrester

A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas.

No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked for both his theories of femininity and for his alleged elevation of personal prejudice to universal pronouncement.

FREUD'S WOMEN examines that bold collaboration with his female patients which made psychoanalysis as much their creation as the young Viennese doctor's. It explores Freud's family life, his relations with daughter Anna, his 'Antigone', and his friendships with his followers. From the writer and turn of the century 'femme fatale', Lou Andreas Salome, to the socialist feminist, Helene Deutsch, early theorist of femininity, to Princesse Marie Bonaparte, who moved from couch to royal court with amazing facility and became head of the French psychoanalytic movement, Freud's women friends and pupils were extraordinary.

  • Classification : Psychology
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Orion
  • Page Extent : 576
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780753819166
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. A novelist and writer she is visiting professor of Literature and the Medical Humanities at King's College London. She was chair of the Freud Museum from 2008-2014 and is a former president of English PEN. She was awarded an OBE for services to Literature in 2013. Her published work includes Mad Bad and Sad All About Love and Losing the Dead. @LisaAppignanesi>

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John Forrester

Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist and writer. A former university lecturer and Deputy Director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, she has made programs for television and co-edited many books, including The Rushdie File and Science and Beyond. She broadcasts and reviews regularly and is a Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

John Forrester, Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences at Cambridge University, is a noted Freud scholar and writer on psychoanalysis. He is a co-translator of Lacan's Seminars I and II.>

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