What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments The History of Psychoanalysis Series

In 1921, a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary, she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records, but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young doctor's notes to think about Freud and his methods. The discovery of the diary marks a small sensation for the history of social science. Three factors make the document unique: first, it records not a training analysis, but the analysis of an actual patient, second, the analysis took place before Freud fell ill with cancer, and third, the analysand obviously noted down what was said in the practice word by word.

Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction , Diary of an analysis, April 1921 , Illustrations , Being analysed by Freud in 1921—notes about the analytic process , "Prof. Freud calls for tolerance!"— Dashes that moved the couch and politics , Freud the analyst and therapist , Notes and questions for Freud and Ms Guggenbühl talking about the "G case study"

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