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The Desert of Stolen Dreams by Robert Silverberg

dreams visions and nightmares

36 books — 4 voters

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

The Origins of Intelligence in Children by Jean Piaget

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychology and psychiatry in fact and fiction

17 books — 1 voter

Poet Anderson ...of Nightmares by Tom DeLonge

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Best Books About Dreams

54 books — 49 voters

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies by Jeremy D. Safran

Seeing Through Tears by Judith Kay Nelson

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by C.G. Jung

An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis by Charles Brenner

Psychodynamics

17 books — 1 voter

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad

Whitney's Heaven: On Gender, Queerness, and Mothers

37 books — 2 voters

The Paradoxes of Delusion by Louis A. Sass

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques Lacan

The Psychotic Dr. Schreber

29 books — 6 voters

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“ It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to him.Time after time, Freud's patients, women from prosperous, conventional families, unburdened painful memories of childhood sexual encounters with men they had trusted: family friends, relatives, and fathers. Freud initially believed his patients and recognized the significance of the It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to him.Time after time, Freud's patients, women from prosperous, conventional families, unburdened painful memories of childhood sexual encounters with men they had trusted: family friends, relatives, and fathers. Freud initially believed his patients and recognized the significance of their confessions. In 1896, with the publication of two works, The Aetiology of Hysteria and Studies on Hysteria, he announced that he had solved the mystery of the female neurosis. At the origin of every case of hysteria, Freud asserted, was a childhood sexual trauma. But Freud was never comfortable with this discovery, because of what it implied about the behavior of respectable family men. If his patients' reports were true, incest was not a rare abuse, confined to the poor and the mentally defective, but was endemic to the patriarchal family. Recognizing the implicit challenge to patriarchal values, Freud refused to identify fathers publicly as sexual aggressors. Though in his private correspondence he cited "seduction by the father" as the "essential point" in hysteria, he was never able to bring himself to make this statement in public. Scrupulously honest and courageous in other respects, Freud falsified his incest cases. In The Aetiology of Hysteria, Freud implausibly identified governessss, nurses, maids, and children of both sexes as the offenders. In Studies in Hysteria, he managed to name an uncle as the seducer in two cases. Many years later, Freud acknowledged that the "uncles" who had molested Rosaslia and Katharina were in fact their fathers. Though he had shown little reluctance to shock prudish sensibilities in other matters, Freud claimed that "discretion" had led him to suppress this essential information. Even though Freud had gone to such lengths to avoid publicly inculpating fathers, he remained so distressed by his seduction theory that within a year he repudiated it entirely. He concluded that his patients' numerous reports of sexual abuse were untrue. This conclusion was based not on any new evidence from patients, but rather on Freud's own growing unwillingness to believe that licentious behavior on the part of fathers could be so widespread. His correspondence of the period revealed that he was particularly troubled by awareness of his own incestuous wishes toward his daughter, and by suspicions of his father, who had died recently. p9-10 ...more ”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest

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“ But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will to power: and Jung, certainly the most humane and gentlest of them, and possibly the greatest, but nevertheless the descendant of parsons and professors, and himself a super-parson and a super-professor. all men of extraordinary character, and they devised systems that are forever stamped ...more ”
― Robertson Davies, The Manticore

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