By David Cohen
"Freud on Coke" by way of David Cohen (Retail Epub)
Print ISBN: 9780956544506
eISBN: 9781908122063
Publisher: Cutting part Press/Andrews united kingdom
Dewey: 150.19/52
Publication Date: 14 Feb, 2011
Pages: 349
Category: Psychology
LCCN: BF173.F85
Language: English
Edition: 1
The tale of Freud's involvement with cocaine and the way it affected learn lengthy after he died... The ebook tells of a couple of drug similar tragedies Freud was once eager about together with the demise of Ernest Fleischl and that of the fewer renowned Otto Gross who used to be an outstanding analyst, a cocaine addict and has complex rules approximately intercourse which led him to founding an orgiastic commune in Italy. Freud devotees can be unsatisfied with the publication since it depicts their hero as all too human however it is a balanced view!
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David Cohen justly describes Freud on Coke as “half heritage, part polemic”, that is a good self-declaration concerning the booklet, for Cohen doesn't try and disguise what seems like his dislike for the fellow. in spite of the fact that, Freud’s theories definitely carry a few weight with the writer for they're utilised in his research: “Any try to comprehend Freud has to confront the truth that he used to be, every now and then, a grasp of denial. the nice unanswered query is whether or not he was once conscious of that point of himself” (Cohen 27). This illustrates how Cohen makes use of psychoanalytic option to examine Freud himself – used to be he in denial? – there's a seduction of his conception concerned; as a degree of the guy. The publication itself is split into 3 sections. within the first half, Cohen offers with Sigmund Freud’s personal use of cocaine, his writing at the subject and what it might probably demonstrate approximately his paintings and character. within the moment half, he examines the improvement of the introspective drug-use culture following Freud within the 20th century. And thirdly, he examines the country of play with medicinal drugs this day by way of their socio-medical-political place.