Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590511824 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to "Putnam Camp”–the eminent American psychologist James Jackson Putnam's family retreat in the Adirondacks. Putnam, a Boston Unitarian, and Freud, a Viennese Jew, came from opposite worlds, cherished polarized ambitions, and promoted seemingly irreconcilable visions of human nature–and yet they struck up an unusually fruitful collaboration. As the great-grandson of Putnam, author George Prochnik had access to a wealth of personal firsthand material from the Putnam family–as well as from the James and Emerson families–all of which contribute to a new and intimate vision of the texture of daily life at a moment when America was undergoing a cultural and intellectual renaissance.. "Of all the things that I have experienced in America, this is by far the most amazing," Freud wrote of Putnam Camp. Putnam's unimpeachable reputation played a crucial role in legitimizing the psychoanalytic movement. Putnam Camp reveals details of Putnam's and Freud's personal lives that have never been fully explored be
An informative and fun read This review of Freud's only trip to America brings a great deal of little known information about the man, his friends and the early 1900's climate for new ideas in America. The intellectual culture of old New England families is covered in an entertaining manner as is the interplay with the author's Viennese/Jewish ancestry.. Benjamin Swett said Psychoanalysis and the American Woods. What I like about Putnam Camp is the assured way it uses a moment in history--Sigmund Freud's unlikely visit to a camp in the Adirondacks in 1909--to unlock previously unexplored material not only about Freud, but about the tentative beginnings of the psychoanalytic movement in America and the relationship of psychoanalysis to transcendentalism. Based on a cache of letters between Freud and Prochnik's great-grandfather, James Jackson Putnam, one of the early proselytizers for psychoanalysis in the United States and also the founder. AN EXCEEDINGLY IMPORTANT BOOK. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I cannot overstate how important i believe this book to be. it is a book about a short stay freud had in america in 1909, during which his great discoveries were watered down for the american market, so to speak, and he was abandoned by colleagues he found he could not trust, particularly by jung, who appears a very unpleasant and nasty person. but the revolutionary material Prochnik has uncovered--stuff i have never seen, read, heard about, or even heard intimated, is that freud had no trouble with homosexaulity (this is more than
All rights reserved. This delightfully written, erudite book intertwines the lives and works of Freud and Putnam, along with cultural and intellectual movements of the time, such as Progressivism, spiritualism, transcendentalism and American Hegelianism. in 1909. Putnam hosted the father of psychoanalysis at his whimsically Waspy Adirondack retreat, Putnam Camp, during Freud's only trip to the U.S. Freud, knowing the long history of anti-Semitism, distrusted Putnam's faith in history's progress and in the ultimate harmony between individual and society. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc