The Wolf-Man : conversations with Freud's patient--sixty years later

Translation of Gespraeche mit dem Wolfsmann by Michael Shaw, c1980 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Reinbek bei Hamburg..

Part 1 - The Wolf-Man. An art nouveau personality. In the mirror of psychoanalysis. Part 2 - Conversations with the Wolf-Man. Freud the father. Residues of transference. Further childhood material. Therese. The sister complex. Sexuality, money, masochism. The insurance employee. "I, the most famous case". Love/hate. A young man at ninetuy. A human relationship. Part 3 - The Wolf-Man and I. Report on a death

'Four years after beginning psychoanalysis with Freud in 1910, a young Russian, son of a rich landowner, was discharged as cured of his childhood neurosis. The Wolf-Man, as the young man was known by his psychoanalytic pseudonym, was so called for his wolf phobia from a dream about wolves he had at age four and which proved, to Freud, to be the key to understanding his tormenting problems. According to Ernest Jones, Freud was at the very height of his powers when he decided he had successfully treated the Wolf-Man. The Wolf-Man disappeared for half a century into obscurity--until the 1970s when a Viennese journalist, Karin Obholzer, discovered him leading the well-guarded life of a pensioner in Vienna. She was able to win his confidence and was the last person to converse with the Wolf-Man before his death in 1979. This book is an edited transcript of their meetings.'

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