Keeping the show on the road
John Kerrigan, 6 November 1986
In Dora’s Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism
edited by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane.
Virago, 291 pp., £11.95, October 1985,0 86068 712 0 Show More
edited by Charles Bernheimer and Claire Kahane.
Virago, 291 pp., £11.95, October 1985,
The Essentials of Psychoanalysis
by Sigmund Freud, edited by Anna Freud.
Hogarth/Institute of Psychoanalysis, 595 pp., £20, March 1986,0 7012 0720 5 Show More
by Sigmund Freud, edited by Anna Freud.
Hogarth/Institute of Psychoanalysis, 595 pp., £20, March 1986,
Freud and the Humanities
edited by Peregrine Horden.
Duckworth, 186 pp., £18, October 1985,0 7156 1983 7 Show More
edited by Peregrine Horden.
Duckworth, 186 pp., £18, October 1985,
The Psychoanalytic Movement
by Ernest Gellner.
Paladin, 241 pp., £3.50, May 1985,0 586 08436 3 Show More
by Ernest Gellner.
Paladin, 241 pp., £3.50, May 1985,
The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
by Leo Bersani.
Columbia, 126 pp., $17.50, April 1986,0 231 06218 4 Show More
by Leo Bersani.
Columbia, 126 pp., $17.50, April 1986,
“... The Professor was not always right,’ declared H.D. after analysis in Vienna. Her judgment seems rather generous. Reading her Tribute to Freud, one can’t ignore the emotional and interpretative coercion that went on at 19 Berggasse under the name of science. To an alarming degree, theory preempted argument. H.D. had been abandoned by her husband, Richard Aldington, for another woman, during a difficult pregnancy in which mother and child seemed doomed; her love affair with the feminist Bryher was fraught; writing set up its own strains: but Freud already knew, amid this welter of anxieties, what really worried the patient ... ”
