The pre-psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud (Karnac, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index
This vital new reading of Freud's pre-analytic texts proposes both to introduce psychoanalysis to a research-driven, interdisciplinary means of solving problems, and to open up the possibility of a methodological shift in the sciences
COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION THE ROOTS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS RECOVERED?; 1. The Beginnings in Neurology and Psychiatry; 2. Studies on Cocaine; 3. Freud and Philosophy; 4. Studies on Hysteria and The Neuro-Psychoses; 5. The Project for a Scientific Psychology; 6. Epistemological Issues: Materialism, Reductionism, and Evolutionism; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.