Bloomsbury/Freud : the letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925

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'With the publication of this intimate correspondence, we see for the first time the fascinating ways in which two very different worlds merged and influenced each other. Chronicling a year of almost daily correspondence between husband and wife while Alix was in Berlin being analyzed by Freud's disciple Karl Abraham, these letters between Freud's translators bring to life the scientific radicalism of early psychoanalysis and the elegant bohemianism of Bloomsbury....We watch as they render Freud's subtleties into the language of England's intellectual elite, and we witness the theoretical pyrotechnics and personal infighting of early psychoanalysis, an analysis as much of the cabaret as of the consulting room....'

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