Questions for Freud: The secret history of psychoanalysis

With the intrigue of a mystery, Questions for Freud uncovers the paradoxes that riddle psychoanalysis today and traces them to FreudÆs life. Nicholas Rand and Maria Torok develop a new biographical and conceptual approach to psychoanalysis, one that outlines FreudÆs contradictory theories of mental functioning against the backdrop of his permanent lack of insight into crucial and traumatic aspects of his immediate familyÆs life. lhis book offers a new way of understanding the flaws and contradictions of FreudÆs thought without losing sight of its signifIcance. Nicholas Rand is Professor of French Literature and Senior Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.