The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy
By (Author) Nicolas Abraham
By (author) Maria Torok
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st September 2006
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
616.8917
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 8mm
Description
The Wolf Man's Magic Word reopens the examination of the "Wolf Man," a Russian emigre who was Freud's patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's work is at once the account of the Wolf Man's psychological inventions, a reading of his dreams and symptoms, and a critique of basic Freudian notions.
Reviews
"To this day they call him the Wolf-Man. But did anyone really know why You will know it. What takes place here - I am talking about an event and a monument - is analogous to an archeological dig. A monumental text is exposed to an interpretation whose daring and effectiveness vie with each other."-Jacques Derrida
"This book succeeds because of its very specific lexical interpretations coupled with a demonstration of how a genuine link between psychoanalysis and literary analysis can be established."-Paul de Man
Author Bio
Nicolas Abraham (1919-1975) was a philosopher and psychoanalyst.Maria Torok (1926-1998) practiced psychoanalysis in Paris.Nicholas Rand is professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was an influential French philosopher and literary critic.
