TY  - BOOK
AU  - Major, Rene
AU  - Talagrand,Chantal
AU  - Jacob,Agnes,Tr.
TI  - Freud : the unconscious and world affairs
SN  - 9781782205340
U1  - 150.1952092 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London 
PB  - Routledge 
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Psychoanalysis--Political aspects
KW  - Psychoanalysts
KW  - Austria
KW  - Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
KW  - Collective behavior
N2  - This book sheds a new light on Freud who, from the beginning, was aware that the edifice he was constructing – psychoanalysis – which revealed in each individual an "ego not master in its own house" –, had clear implications for understanding collective human behaviour. This man was profoundly concerned with matters of peace and war, religion, morality and civilisation.

The authors’ political focus is unusual, and their choice of quotes from lesser-known sources holds great interest. Freud’s interlocutors include Oskar Pfisrer, Swiss pastor and lay analyst; Einstein; and the American diplomat William Bullitt, with whom Freud wrote a study of President Wilson, entitled Thomas Widrow Wilson. A Psychological Study. In the Introduction to this book, written in 1930, Freud describes Wilson as a person for whom mere facts held no significance; he esteemed highly nothing but human motives and opinions.
ER  -