Mikkel Borch Jacobsen: 3 books
Remembering Anna O.
A Century of Mystification
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Remembering Anna O. offers a devastating examination of the very foundations of psychoanalytic theory and practice, which was born with the publication of Breuer and Freud's Studies on Hysteria in 1895. Breuer described the case of Anna O., a young woman afflicted with a severe hysteria whom he had...
The Freud Files
An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why did Freud 'triumph' to such a degree that we hardly remember his rivals? This book reconstructs the...
by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Jacques Derrida, Sarah Kofman
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1982
... “Moi”, “Moi” et encore “Moi” : tout ceci (la psychanalyse, en somme) n’était qu’un grand rêve égoïste — celui de “Sigmund Freud” mais aussi le “nôtre”, celui de la foule des lecteurs parricides. Un sujet y sera né, s identifiant à toutes les places, assassinant...