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energy and in taking risks when nobody pays any attention because the Gulf
crisis
captures the international media.
You see, everything is as usual- threats of war, fluctuating levels
of
anxiety, economic crises salted with one or two political scandals, a jazz
festival in Eilat, the opening of a new building for contemporary art at the
Israeli Museum, and lovely autumn days at last.
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 influenced by their national
traditions, interests, and beliefs, Kurzweil
examines in detail how in each country the
insights of psychoanalysis 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
