The Unknown Freud - by Robert L Lippman (Paperback)

About the Book

The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman explores some of the feelings, fears, and beleifs that Freud may have privately harbored about his Jewish religious background, upbringing, and culture. This is done creatively through the five plays, and backed up with scholarly, academic research in the five essays.

Book Synopsis

The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman explores some of the feelings, fears, and beleifs that Freud may have privately harbored about his Jewish religious background, upbringing, and culture. This is done creatively through the five plays, and backed up with scholarly, academic research in the five essays.

"A fascinating psychobiographic interweaving of Freud--the creator of psychoanalysis and secular Jew--in an anti-analytic, anti-Semitic society. We walk, talk, and playfully debate with Freud and the author on science and art, the unconscious and culture."
--Harold P. Blum, MD. Executive Director, Emeritus, Sigmund Freud Archives; Former Editor, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Review Quotes

"A fascinating psychobiographic interweaving of Freud-the creator of psychoanalysis and secular Jew-in an anti-analytic, anti-Semitic society. We walk, talk, and playfully debate with Freud and the author on science and art, the unconscious and culture." -Harold P. Blum, MD, Executive Director, Emeritus, Sigmund Freud Archives; Former Editor, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. "Your play is very profound! So, there are several points of convergence in our researches." -Dr. Carlo Bonomi, faculty, Institute of Psychoanalysis H.S. Sullivan, Florence, Italy. "Your article on Freud's 'Botanical Monograph' is fascinating." -David James Fisher, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. "I finally got to read it and really love it." -Daniel T. O'Hara on "Freud's 'Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis' Revisited." Dr. O'Hara is Professor of English, Temple University, editor of The Faculty Herald, and coeditor of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (2005, Barnes and Noble Classics edition).