Year: 1951
Type: article
Abstract: This little book is a really astonishing item for the collector of curious publications. It looks like a new edition of a work by Freud, not showing the names of the two editors on the outside. The editors claim that the book supplies Freud's original terms and their proper definition in his own words, arranged in dictionary form. For the student of psychoanalysis and of Freud's work the reading of the book is painful. In many places it seems as though the editors had tried to make quotations appear utterly ridiculous. Most important theoretical and practical concepts are missing; frequently utterly irrelevant, and sometimes banal, statements are given considerable space. In the introduction, Theodor Reik compares psychoanalysis with the stable of King Augeas, which was dirtied by 3,000 oxen. Even if this comparison be true, the editors of this book have not lived up to a herculean job.
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1597737301