Freud in Cambridge

The authors explore the influence of Freud's thinking on twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life within Cambridge and beyond.

La première biographie d'Athénaïs Michelet, seconde épouse de Jules Michelet et personnalité atypique défiant tous les codes de son époque. Un destin romanesque, singulier et inédit, par l'auteur du Roman de Jeanne. Après une enfance difficile auprès d'une mère acariâtre et d'un père secrétaire de Toussaint Louverture, adoré mais âgé, devenue institutrice et républicaine convaincue, Athénaïs se plonge dans la lecture de Du Prêtre, de la femme, de la famille , de Jules Michelet. Ce livre, aussi scandaleux qu'anticlérical, ébranle ses fondements religieux et provoque chez elle une profonde remise en question. Aussi décide-t-elle de rencontrer l'historien. Dès lors, tout va très vite. Ils se marient, et commence pour Athénaïs une existence de femme soumise à un grand homme terriblement aimant : père de substitution, Michelet se révèle littéralement obsédé par son épouse, voulant la posséder tout entière, jusqu'à l'observation permanente de son corps, jusqu'à l'étouffement... Malgré cela, elle parviendra à devenir écrivain et publiera à la mort de son époux ses oeuvres inédites, avant de devenir l'égérie du sculpteur Bourdelle.

Autorentext
John Forrester (19492015) was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Head of the HPS department for seven years. He was Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and History from 2005 to 2014, and authored Freud's Women (with Lisa Appignanesi, 1992), Dispatches from the Freud Wars (1997) and Truth Games (1997), amongst other titles. He published over fifty papers in scholarly journals, principally concerned with the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis. His work on cases as a genre and as a style of reasoning was posthumously published as Thinking in Cases (2016).Laura Cameron is an Associate Professor of Historical Geography at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She is the author of Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake (1997), the co-editor of Emotion, Place and Culture (2009) and Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness (2011), and has published numerous papers on the history of fieldwork, psychoanalysis, ecology and sound.

Klappentext
Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold, buried under different accounts of the dissemination of psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind, sexuality and the unconscious affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G. Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell, Bernal, Strachey and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of disciplines, from biology to anthropology, and from philosophy to psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life.

Zusammenfassung
Forrester and Cameron explore the transformative influence of Freud's thinking on twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life within Cambridge and beyond. This highly original volume demonstrates the impact of Freud's work across disciplines, from anthropology and psychology, to philosophy, literature, education and science.

Inhalt
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Tansley's dream; 3. W. H. R. Rivers, the English Freud; 4. Becoming Freudian in Cambridge - undergraduates and psychoanalysis; 5. Discipline formation - psychology, English, philosophy; 6. The 1925 group; 7. The Malting House Garden School; 8. A psychoanalytic debate in 1925; 9. Bloomsbury analysts; 10. Freud in Cambridge?; Bibliography; Index.

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