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On the Couch

Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
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  • On the Couch by Andrew Blauner
  • On the Couch by Andrew Blauner
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The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more. Colm T�ib�n writes about Freud, World War I, Henry James, and Thomas Mann; Adam Gopnik explores Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents; Susie Orbach considers Freud's "ordinary unhappiness" and D. W. Winnicott's "good enough"; Jennifer Finney Boylan reflects on penis envy and gender identity; Peter Kramer describes how new science and drugs have revolutionized psychology since Freud; Susie Boyt, one of Freud's great-granddaughters, spends the night at the Freud Museum in London; Siri Hustvedt examines Freud's divided reception today; and there's much more. Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we see ourselves and the world.

Author Biography:

Colm Toibin is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright, and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a work of nonfiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved and The Summer Without Men. Her most recent novel The Blazing World was long listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Los Angeles Book Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She has a PhD in English from Columbia University and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Jennifer Finney Boylan is a professor of English at Colby College and the author of the bestseller She's Not There, as well as the acclaimed novels The Planets and Getting In. A three-time guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she has also appeared on Larry King Live, Today, and 48 Hours, and she has played herself on ABC's All My Children. Jennifer lives in Belgrade Lakes, Maine. Andre Aciman received his Ph.D. and A.M. in comparative literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and comparative literature from Lehman College. He is on the faculty of the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Prior to that, he taught at Princeton University and Bard College. Aciman is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Call Me by Your Name, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the memoir Out of Egypt; and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and in several volumes of The Best American Essays. Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of eight previous anthologies, including Now Comes Good Sailing, Coach, and The Peanuts Papers. He is a member of PEN America and he and his work have appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, among other media outlets. Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of eight previous anthologies, including Now Comes Good Sailing, Coach, and The Peanuts Papers. He is a member of PEN America and he and his work have appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, among other media outlets. Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of eight previous anthologies, including Now Comes Good Sailing, Coach, and The Peanuts Papers. He is a member of PEN America and he and his work have appeared in the New York Times and on NPR, among other media outlets. Alex Pheby is a British author and academic. He is currently a professor at Newcastle University and lives in Scotland. He studied at Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths, and UEA. Perry Daniels is an award-winning, classically trained actor from Atlanta, Georgia, with over a decade of experience on stage, screen, and lurking mysteriously behind the microphone of his home studio. An audiobook junkie and mimic with a love of dialects, Perry strives to bring sincerity, energy, depth, and a focus on performance to his narration. Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and Audie Award-nominated narrator of over 300 audiobooks is best known for her appearances in Sex and the City (as Ruby Rosen, jeweler extraordinaire) and several Spike Lee films, notably Bamboozled in the role of slick network TV consultant Myrna Goldfarb. In HBO's Bad Education, Dina portrayed Wendy, a member of the doomed Roslyn Board of Ed frantically attempting to cover up missing funds, and Gina in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade, a sun-block-obsessed mom pulling partygoers aside to apply and re-apply. Dina is recurring on The Good Fight Season 5 as the lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources.
Release date Australia
May 14th, 2024
Contributors
  • Contributions by Andrew Blauner
  • Edited by Andrew Blauner
  • Read by Dina Pearlman
  • Read by Perry Daniels
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9798874725525
Product ID
38707539

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