Freud, Biologist of the Mind

Frank J. Sulloway is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Fascinating… A thought-provoking tour through this extraordinary chapter in the history of ideas.

• Preface to the1992 Edition Preface and Guide to the Reader Acknowledgments Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: Freud and Nineteenth-Century Psychophysics 1. The Nature and Origins of Psychoanalysis 2. Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer: Toward a Psychophysical Theory of Hysteria (1880-95) 3. Sexuality and the Etiology of Neurosis: The Estrangement of Breuer and Freud 4. Freud's Three Major Psychoanalytic Problems and the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) PART TWO: Psychoanalysis: The Birth of a Genetic Psychobiology 5. Wilhelm Fliess and the Mathematics of Human Sexual Biology 6. Freud's Psychoanalytic Transformation of the Fliessian Id 7. The Darwinian Revolution's Legacy to Psychology and Psychoanalysis 8. Freud and the Sexologists 9. Dreams and the Psychopathology of Everyday Life 10. Evolutionary Biology Resolves Freud's Three Psychoanalytic Problems (1905-39) 11. Life (Eros) and Death Instincts: Culmination of a Biogenetic Romance PART THREE: Ideology, Myth, and History in the Origins of Psychoanalysis 12. Freud as Crypto-Biologist: The Politics of Scientific Independence 13. The Myth of the Hero in the Psychoanalytic Movement 14. Epilogue and Conclusion Appendix A: Two Published Accounts Detailing Josef Breuer's 4 November 1895 Defense of Freud's Views on Sexuality and Neurosis Appendix B: Josef Breuer's Met psychology: The Matter of the "Remarkable Paradox" Appendix C: Dr. Felix Gattel's Scientific Collaboration with Freud (1897/98) Appendix D: The Dating of Freud's Reading of Albert Moll's Untersuchungen uher die Libido sexualis Bibliography Index