Freud in Cambridge

Author(s): Forrester, John (University of Cambridge), Cameron, Laura (Queen's University, Ontario)
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 09/03/2017,
Pagination: 812 pages, 1 Maps; 44 Halftones, black and white,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780521861908,
Description:

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.