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Author: Paul Roazen
ISBN: 9780887388514

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From the publisher

A major figure among pre-World War I psychoanalysts, Victor Tausk was perhaps Sigmund Freud's most brilliant pupil--"the most prominently out-standing" in the opinion of Lou Andreas-Salome. Tausk craved recognition for the originality of his work, and a fierce rivalry developed between pupil and mentor. Tausk, who felt a deep and neurotic dependence on Freud, was totally consumed in the struggle. Freud's final rejection of his follower, and the particularly unfortunate manner in which it was carried out, was followed by Tausk's bizarre suicide--and by an official silence that has all but obliterated his name from the annals of psychoanalysis.

Arthur Koestler called Brother Animal "A very important and original contribution to the history of the psychoanalytic movement and beyond that to the history of ideas," and Maxwell Geismar said it was "the best treatment of Freud and that remarkable group of his original disciples that 1 have read. It reads as if Mr. Roazen was right there at the time, inside the inner circle."

Details

Title Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk
Author Paul Roazen
Binding Paperback
Edition New edition
Pages 280
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge, New Brunswick
Publication date 1990-01
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780887388514 / 0887388515
Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90010833
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Paul Roazen (1936-2005) was professor of social and political science at York University in Toronto. He was the author of Helene Deutsch and Brother Animal.