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Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory

by: Bruno Bettelheim

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.1952
EAN: 9780394710365
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN: 0394710363
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: December 12, 1983
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: December 12, 1983
Studio: Vintage

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Argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud's work in English and led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority.

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- A Little-Known but All-Time Classic
This simple and lucid little book holds a very important key to the proper understanding and true appreciation of Freud the Humanist and the spiritual dimension of his work, and indeed of all psychology. It stands as an all-time classic, in my estimation.

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- Eloquent Nonesense
Over the past 100 years, the physical and biological sciences have revolutionized our world, and have enabled man to understand and control nature. During the same period of time, progress in the social sciences has been painfully slow; it has consisted of an ongoing process of criticism and interpretation that has failed to produce any testable claims.

In Freud and Man's Soul, Bettleheim argues that poor translations of Freud's work have caused psychoanalysis to be widely misunderstood ... Read More

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- To understand Freud, either read the German or this book
The main theme of this book is that the ideas of Sigmund Freud have been widely misunderstood. To justify these assertions, Bettelheim lists many errors in the translation of Freud's works from German to English. German pronouns are not nearly as simple to use as the English "equivalents" and Freud's intention when using them is quite different from what his translators concluded. Since the individual's thoughts concerning themselves are so critical to Freudian thought, the difference is nontrivial. ... Read More

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- Forget the insipid views of Freud taught in school
Bettelheim, despite some of his other problems(with autism for example), writes exquisitely on Freud. He refines the translations of Freud's work so eloquently that I actually understand it!
Everything the other reviewers said PLUS... the Oedipus Complex for example, is not an obscure every boy wants to delete his father thing. Read the book and see... it has more to do with the day a son surpasses his father, and what that does to the triad of Dad, Mom, son.
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- if only he'd written more!
This book might have been subtitled, "Retranslating Freud," because that's just what the author does with some of Freud's key terms.
I was gratified to see that "cathexis" could actually be rendered "charge" or "investment": much more consistent with how Freud uses the term. Freud was certainly a reductionist, but mistranslations of his work make him seem absolutely bloodless.
This is one of the best books on Freud I've ever read.

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