Casi clinici

by Sigmund Freud

"Sono qui raccolti in un unico volume - scrive Michele Ranchetti nella sua Presentazione - tutti i casi clinici pubblicati da Freud, i casi "esemplari". Freud stesso li ha più volte ripubblicati, a ribadire che a essi si doveva fare riferimento come alle testimonianze originarie della ricerca, le diverse 'scene primarie' da cui la psicoanalisi era partita e a cui ritornava, nel suo lungo cammino di scienza e di cura. Su questi casi la critica si è esercitata da sempre, sin dal loro primo apparire. E in modi diversi. Infatti, qualunque cosa si voglia o si possa dire su Freud e la psicoanalisi, non si potrà mai prescindere dai casi clinici che Freud ha pubblicato, perché essi costituiscono la "prova" l'esempio, la proposta: sono per così dire le parabole della dottrina di Freud, e come le parabole evangeliche, sono passibili di prospettive e di intelligenze diverse, secondo la stessa crescita dottrinale, all'interno e al di fuori della psicoanalisi. Sono strumenti di conoscenza e di ricerca, momenti di un processo di conoscenza della malattia prima, dell'uomo poi, fasi di un'antropologia che Thomas Mann saluta come liberatoria dagli spettri del non sapere, del non conoscere, dalle forze irrazionali all'opera nella società e nella storia".

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

733 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1905

About the author

Dr. Sigismund Freud (later changed to Sigmund) was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. He is regarded as one of the most influential—and controversial—minds of the 20th century.

In 1873, Freud began to study medicine at the University of Vienna. After graduating, he worked at the Vienna General Hospital. He collaborated with Josef Breuer in treating hysteria by the recall of painful experiences under hypnosis. In 1885, Freud went to Paris as a student of the neurologist Jean Charcot. On his return to Vienna the following year, Freud set up in private practice, specialising in nervous and brain disorders. The same year he married Martha Bernays, with whom he had six children.

Freud developed the theory that humans have an unconscious in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the defences against them. In 1897, he began an intensive analysis of himself. In 1900, his major work 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was published in which Freud analysed dreams in terms of unconscious desires and experiences.

In 1902, Freud was appointed Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Vienna, a post he held until 1938. Although the medical establishment disagreed with many of his theories, a group of pupils and followers began to gather around Freud. In 1910, the International Psychoanalytic Association was founded with Carl Jung, a close associate of Freud's, as the president. Jung later broke with Freud and developed his own theories.

After World War One, Freud spent less time in clinical observation and concentrated on the application of his theories to history, art, literature and anthropology. In 1923, he published 'The Ego and the Id', which suggested a new structural model of the mind, divided into the 'id, the 'ego' and the 'superego'.

In 1933, the Nazis publicly burnt a number of Freud's books. In 1938, shortly after the Nazis annexed Austria, Freud left Vienna for London with his wife and daughter Anna.

Freud had been diagnosed with cancer of the jaw in 1923, and underwent more than 30 operations. He died of cancer on 23 September 1939.

Reviews

[Vincenzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I casi clinici analizzati da Freud offrono, anche a chi non è esperto della materia, la possibilità di cominciare a familiarizzare con alcune delle tematiche più importanti nella psicologia freudiana.
Consigliato a chi vuole avvicinarsi a Freud, un po' prolisso in alcune parti, ma nel complesso soddisfacente.

[Giuseppe Turco · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book years ago. I just remember that, among the other Freud's books I read, it was the less interesting, but still I was passionate about it.

[Giovanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A dir poco illuminante!

[Eliaspallanzani · Rating 1 out of 5]

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