Freud in Cambridge

John Forrester (1949–2015) 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.

'Freud in Cambridge is an extraordinary and detailed account of an aspect of the British life of psychoanalysis little examined in intellectual history. Cambridge seems on its surface less rich than the London centre of psychoanalysis. Yet what Forrester and Cameron show is how extraordinarily rich this tale is … Without a doubt this is one of the most important books on twentieth-century British intellectual history I have read in a very long time.' Sander L. Gilman, author of Freud, Race, and Gender

• 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.