Description:
Ilse Grubrich-Simitis re-establishes the importance of Freud's earliest psychoanalytic book Studies on Hysteria and his last, Moses and Monotheism, and offers a new understanding of their significance.
Review Quotes:
For some two decades, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis has been a leading - probably the leading - student of Freud. Her readings of the fundamental texts of psychoanalysis are exemplary: they have successfully established what is in them and should help to correct what Freud bashers 'claim' is in them, two very different things. In addition to her impeccable scholarship, she brings to bear a solid quantity of good sense which invites, almost compels, assent. - Peter Gay, Harvard University, USA