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children, my grandchi ldren, and my friends the fact that I have lived my
"reprieve," since 1977, not in anguish but with serenity. Thanks to them, I
have accepted death - that is easy - but also the consequences of the em–
bolism and the infirmities of age - which is harder. I remember an expression
I sometimes used when I was twenty, in conversations with friends and with
myself: "to achieve one's secular salvation." With or without God, no one
knows at the end of his life whether he is saved or lost. Thanks to those
about whom I have said so little and who have given me so much , I
remember this formula without fear and trembling.
The Freudians
A Comparative Perspective
Edith Kurzweil
In this original and stimulating book, Edith
Kurzweil traces the ways in which psychoa–
nalysis has evolved in Austria, England,
France, Germany, and the United States.
Arguing that even the most orthodox
Freudians are intluenced by their national
traditions, interests, and beliefs, Kurzweil
examines in detail how in each country the
insights of psyc hoanalysis have been modified
by the national culture and applied
to
psychoanalytic medicine, pedagogy, literary
studies, feminism, and politics.
"[An]
interesting, well thought-out, and
important book. "-Peter Loewenberg
$35.
00
Yale University Press
Dept.
216, 92A
Yale Station, New Haven, CT
06520
