Synopsis:
Embracing the prehistoric Venus and the films of Alfred Hitchcock, this psychoanalytic scholarship deals explicitly with issues around the Oedipal complex - fear, desire, and hatred of the mother and the breast, and the terrors of abandonment in infancy and childhood. Eisenbud covers the creative careers of major artists, scientists and philosophers, including George Bernard Shaw, Spielberg, Descartes, Hogarth, Munch, and Chaplin. The book's goal, while using the ambivalence of love and hate toward the mother at its core, is to show afresh the power of basic psychoanalytic hypothesis, and its key place in the psychological sciences.
About the Author:
Jule Eisenbud, M.D. is a Denver psychiatrist who was for many years a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is the author of the The World of Ted Serios, Paranormal Foreknowledge, and Parapsychology and the Unconscious.
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