How a Fabrication Differs from a Lie
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, 13 April 2000
Der Fall Freud: Die Geburt der Psychoanalyse aus der Lüge
by Han Israëls, translated by Gerd Busse.
Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 247 pp., DM 30, May 1999,3 434 50454 0 Show More
by Han Israëls, translated by Gerd Busse.
Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 247 pp., DM 30, May 1999,
“... into English as The Freud Case: The Birth of Psychoanalysis out of Lying), the historian Han Israëls proposes an explanation that has at least the merit of simplicity. Freud, Israëls claims, was so confident in his first theories that he publicly boasted of therapeutic successes that he had not yet ... ”