Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885

Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 poses a question: where does psychoanalysis begin?Giosue Ghisalberti considers how Freud's own development - in terms of both his formal education and his personal growth - influenced the development of psychoanalysis. Rather than a beginning to psychoanalysis, this book instead traces four convergent influences: one, the nature of Freud's "e;Jewishness"e; as determined by the Hebrew language, the Torah, and the man Moses; two, his interdisciplinary scientific studies in medicine, laboratory research, and clinical internship; three, the foundational aspect of Anna O.'s illness; and four, the time he spent in Paris observing hysterics at the Salpetriere hospital. Rather than a beginning to psychoanalysis, the book instead traces several influences, beginning with the "e;archaic heritage"e; he drew from an ancient culture as he presented it in the third and last part of Moses and Monotheism.Sigmund Freud on the Way to Paris, 1873-1885 will be of great interest to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, the humanities, and the material sciences looking to trace four origins of psychoanalysis.