FREUDS WOMEN
Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester
Condition: HVery good. Hardback with dust-jacket. The jacket shows light surface wear at edges and corners, with mild rubbing to panels; book itself remains clean and structurally sound with tight binding. Name inscription.
About the Book:
Freuds Women offers a richly contextualised examination of the women who shaped, influenced, challenged, resisted, or were interpreted through the developing theories of Sigmund Freud. Appignanesi and Forrester move fluently between biography, intellectual history, and cultural commentary, tracing the many feminine presencespatients, disciples, critics, correspondentsthat surrounded the making of psychoanalysis.
The volume juxtaposes Freuds own formulations about femininity with the reflections of the women who worked with him or wrote about him, revealing the tensions, creative frictions, and interpretive battles at the heart of early psychoanalytic thought. It is both a narrative of individuals and a broader study of the entanglement between gender, society, and the origins of a discipline.
About the Authors:
Lisa Appignanesi is a leading writer on culture, psychology, and the history of ideas, widely known for works exploring the human condition and the interface between intellect and personal experience.
John Forrester (19492015), historian of science and psychoanalysis at the University of Cambridge, was renowned for his lucid studies of the scientific and philosophical foundations of Freuds work. Together they bring scholarly precision and narrative clarity to a deeply human and complex story.
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