Freud: Off the Record

by D.M. Thomas

Throughout history, people have searched for explanations to make sense of their lives first there was magic and religion, then there was science; and somewhere in between was freud freuds whole edifice was a masterwork of explanation, with sex at its core he studied his own, often depressed, mind as well as those of his patients, accounting for our actions and troubled thoughts with revolutionary theories such as infant sexuality, sublimation and the oedipus complex he believed that if something was not as visible in a patients personality as it should have been, that was because it was too painful and had to be repressed his theories shocked, troubled and intrigued people, and ensured freud a central role in psychology his work was as much poetry as his theories created stories that people could believe in, and these stories had real therapeutic value he saw psychoanalysis as ministering to the soul (psyche), our whole essence, not just our mind fascinated by archaeology, he

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher and was Head of the English Department at Hereford College of Education until he became a full-time writer. His first novel The Flute-Player won the Gollancz Pan/Picador Fantasy Competition. He is also known for his collections of verse and his translation from the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

He was awarded the Los Angeles Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He lives in his native Cornwall, England.

Reviews

[boredroom · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is not for the beginner and is also not intended to be. The Q&A format is interesting. It presents a fictional dialogue but I am unsure if it is trying to emulate Socrates' dialogues in Plato's Republic.

It has humour and the sexual references certainly is about Freud and his revolutionary thoughts on the human unconscious.

One should read this with at least a foundational knowledge of Freudian or Jungian psychotherapy to appreciate the subtle wits the author had intended in his Q&A format.

[Mieke · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Rabab Boulaich · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book and peculiar discussion, indeed!