The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones, 1908-1939

by Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, R. Andrew Paskauskas, Riccardo Steiner

Overview

Soon after their first meeting in 1908, Sigmund Freud’s future biographer, Ernest Jones, initiated a correspondence with the founder of psychoanalysis that would continue until Freud’s death in London in 1939. This volume makes available from British and American archives nearly seven hundred previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams from the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his admiring younger colleague.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674154247
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	08/11/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	894
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

R. Andrew Paskauskas is a writer, editor, and historian of the psychological sciences. He has taught and lectured at major universities in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Preface

Note on Editorial Method

Abbreviations of Works Cited

Introduction by Riccardo Steiner

Correspondence

List of Correspondence

References

Glossary

Index

Editorial Reviews

What makes these 671 items of singular interest—apart from their intrinsic intellectual vividness and historical importance—is that four-fifths of them are in English… Freud’s communications to Jones are written in an absolutely clear, fluent, fascinating, idiosyncratic and sometimes charmingly imperfect English… The forcefulness, intense personal presence and feeling of momentousness and durable commitment to matters of surpassing historical significance are perceptible, indeed palpitant, in every communication, right down to the occasional postcard.

New York Newsday - Steven Marcus

Freud and Jones put psychoanalysis on the map; a feat neither could have performed alone. While the present volume adds to our knowledge of psychoanalysis’s strange history, its real value lies elsewhere. It documents the steps whereby two starkly dissimilar but equally driven men joined forces and changed the world.

Times Literary Supplement - Liam Hudson

Freud and Jones put psychoanalysis on the map; a feat neither could have performed alone. While the present volume adds to our knowledge of psychoanalysis's strange history, its real value lies elsewhere. It documents the steps whereby two starkly dissimilar but equally driven men joined forces and changed the world.
— Liam Hudson

Times Literary Supplement

What makes these 671 items of singular interest—apart from their intrinsic intellectual vividness and historical importance—is that four-fifths of them are in English...Freud's communications to Jones are written in an absolutely clear, fluent, fascinating, idiosyncratic and sometimes charmingly imperfect English...The forcefulness, intense personal presence and feeling of momentousness and durable commitment to matters of surpassing historical significance are perceptible, indeed palpitant, in every communication, right down to the occasional postcard.
— Steven Marcus

New York Newsday

Soon after their first meeting in 1908, Freud's future biographer, Ernest Jones (1879-1958), initiated a correspondence that would continue until Freud's death in London in 1939. This volume makes available from British and American archives 671 previously unpublished letters, postcards, and telegrams, the vast majority of the three-decade correspondence between Freud and his younger colleague. That part of the correspondence which was written in German is presented in English translation. Edited by R. Andrew Paskauskas, with an introduction by Riccardo Steiner. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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