Has Sigmund Freud been seriously misunderstood? The author of The Uses of Enchantment 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. This provocative argument cuts through the myths to reveal a greater, more compassoinate and also far more disturbing figure.
"VITAL...an eloquent attempt to reclaim Freud's reputation in America." —THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Lucid and provocative." —THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
- ISBN10 070112704X
- ISBN13 9780701127046
- Publish Date 11 July 1983 (first published 12 December 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English