Freud: Conflict and Culture: Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1998. x, 273 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Published in association with the Library of Congress. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The exhibition Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, mounted by the Library of Congress, explores the influence of Freud and psychoanalysis on twentieth-century culture and examines some of his central ideas concerning the individual and society. Contemporary evaluations, emerging from changes in scientific knowledge and ideological priorities, have changed the way we view Freud's contributions to our understanding of self and society. This volume, meant to reflect the lively and eclectic spirit of the show, is a gathering of variously challenging, erudite, and amusing essays by scholars, critics, and writers." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by James H. Billington; Introduction, by Michael S. Roth; "Nothing About the Totem Meal!": On Freud's Notes, by Ilse Grubrich-Simitis; Freud's World of Work, by Patrick J. Mahony; Sigmund Freud's Notes on Faces and Men: National Portrait Gallery, September 13, 1908, by Michael Molnar; Portrait of a Dream Reader, by John Forrester; Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable, by John E. Toews; Oedipus Politicus: Freud's Paradigm of Social Relations, by Jose Brunner; From Suggestion to Insight, from Hypnosis to Psychoanalysis, by Harold P. Blum; Freud's "Dora" Case: The Crucible of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Transference, by Hannah S. Decker; Psychoanalysis and the Historian, by Peter Gay; Freud's Reception in the United States, by Edith Kurzweil; Psychoanalysis: The American Experience, by Robert Coles; Freud, Film, and Culture, by E. Ann Kaplan; Cracking Jokes: A Brief Inquiry into Various Aspects of Humor, by Art Spiegelman; The Freud Controversy: What Is at Issue?, by Frank Cioffi; A Century of Psychoanalysis: Critical Retrospect and Prospect, by Adolf Grunbaum; Freud: Current Projections, by Peter D. Kramer; Strange Hearts: On the Paradoxical Liaison Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism, by Muriel Dimen; The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist, by Oliver Sacks.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.