Freud, biologist of the mind : beyond the psychoanalytic legend

Introduction. Part 1 - Freud and nineteenth-century psychophysics. 1 The nature and origins of psychoanalysis. 2 Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer: toward a psychophysical theory of hysteria (1880-95). 3 Sexuality and the etiology of neurosis: the estrangement of Breuer and Freud. 4 Freud's three major psychoanalytic problems and the project for a scientific psychology. Part 2 - Psychoanalysis: the birth of a genetic psychobiology. 5 Wilhelm Fliess and the mathematics of human sexual biology. 6 Freud's psychoanalytic transformation of the Fliessian id. 7 The Darwinian revolution's legacy to psychology and psychoanalysis. 8 Freud and the sexologists. 9 Dreams and the psychopathology of everyday life. 10 Evolutionary biology resolves Freud's three psychoanalytic problems (1905-39). 11 Life (eros) and death instincts: culmination of a biogenetic romance. Part 3 - Ideology, myth, and history in the origins of psychoanalysis. 12 Freud as crypto-biologist: the politics of scientific independence. 13 The myth of the hero. 14 Epilogue and conclusion. Appendix A - Two published accounts detailing Josef Breuer's 4 November 1895 defense of Freud's views on sexuality and neurosis. Appendix B - Josef Breuer's metapsychology: the matter of the "remarkable paradox". Appendix C - Dr. Felix Gattel's scientific collaboration with Freud (1897/98). Appendix D - The dating of Freud's reading of Albert Moll's Untersuchungen uber die libido sexualis

'...this monumental intellectual biography of Freud is the first serious reassessment of the great man and his work since Ernest Jones's classic biography of almost twenty-five years ago. Drawing upon a host of new sources (including a detailed study of Freud's private library), Sulloway demonstrates that Freud, in spite of his later denials, always remained a "biologist of the mind," that, indeed, his most creative inspirations derived from biology....'

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