{"product_id":"becoming-freud-the-making-of-a-psychoanalyst-9780300158663","title":"Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a strikingly original biography of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Adam Phillips is, I believe, one of the most engaging writers in the world on analysis and the analytic movement . . . Phillips's own love of the beauty and power of psychoanalysis here serves both him and the reader wonderfully well.\"--Vivian Gornick, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Freud \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of the young Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)--Freud up until the age of fifty--that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecalls \"Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer,\" emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story of Freud's earliest years as the oldest--and favored--son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant--increasingly, of course, everybody's status in the modern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Psychoanalysis was also Freud's way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So as well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Freud\u003c\/i\u003e also uses the work of historians of the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have become if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e About Jewish Lives: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More praise for Jewish Lives: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Excellent\" -New York Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Exemplary\" -Wall St. Journal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Distinguished\" -New Yorker \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Superb\" -The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300158663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2014 pg. 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2014 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/10\/2014 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 706\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Adam Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351254393013,"sku":"9780300158663","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5bff3e7b-7239-4d91-bed8-1bfa60dac579.jpg?v=1746540854","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/becoming-freud-the-making-of-a-psychoanalyst-9780300158663","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}