Product Description: Utilizando un amplio acervo de datos, citas, textos y ensayos de autores del siglo pasado y, por supuesto, considerando fundamentalmente lo expresado por Freud, el autor analiza los ideales eróticos y la conducta sexual de la clase media victoriana.

Product Description: Sigmund Freud was a passionate collector of ancient art, ultimately amassing some 2000 works from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the near East and Asia. This book - originally published in conjunction with the Freud Museum in London and a touring exhibition of the finest pieces in the collection - examines what the works meant to Freud and the connections he made between art, antiquities, archaeology and psychoanalysis...read more

Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father

Called Princess Horrid by everyone except her parents, a very badly-behaved princess is transformed into a kitten and becomes the property of the lowliest kitchen maid in the castle.

Argues that Freud was an atheist and that atheism was an important prerequisite for his development of psychoanalysis

Analyzes the style of Gibbon, Roake, Macaulay, and Burckhardt, shedding light upon the nature of history and the role of the historian

Probes the professional and personal life of one of this century's most influential thinkers, analyzing Freud's disputes with his students, his life in relation to the troubles of his native Austria, and his controversial love life

Education of the Senses, the first volume of Peter Gay's The Bourgeois Experience, was published in 1984 to enormous critical acclaim--and controversy. Now, in The Tender Passion, Gay continues his eloquent, psychoanalytically informed exploration of the Victorian era and its middle classes. Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not only to enjoy their sexulaity but to know love in its most exalted sense. The realities of love for the Victorians, he shows, came much closer to their ideals than many have thought. Gay delves into a huge body of material, from philosophical treatises to medical texts, from letters and diaries to works of fiction. The book is replete with fascinating insights into the lives and works of individual Victorians--Dickens, Stendhal, Wagner, Oscar Wilde, Beatrice Potter and Sydney Webb, among them--and his discussions range from the "discovery" of homosexuality to the ways love was diverted or disguised in music and religion. Particularly compelling is the opening section in whch Gay analyzes in depth the separate love stories of two young men, one English and one German--stories which, in Gay's view, "dramatize some of the careers in love open to the middle class in the decades of Victoria and beyond." A work of remarkable learning, analytical sophistication, and stylistic verve, The Tender Passion is an impressive addition to a monumental historical enterprise. About the Author: Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, is the author, most recently, of Freud for Historians. The latest volume in the acclaimed historian's mounumental series ·Focuses on the Vioctorians' notions of love ·Ffilled with fascinating glimpses of individuals ·Draws on huge body of letters, diaries, and other original sources

A thorough investigation of both the valid and invalid reasons for using psychoanalysis as a system of thought to decipher historical events argues for the value of psychanalysis as one method of historical inquiry (view table of contents)

A study of middle-class culture from the 1820s to World War I

A series of essays examining German culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focuses on the Jewish presence and the role of the modernist spirit in that culture

A series of essays examining German culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focuses on the Jewish presence and the role of the modernist spirit in that culture

Product Description: The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism...read more

A brief text with illustrations offers a comprehensive view of the cultural, philosophical, social, and artistic movements of the eighteenth century