This is an auction for FREUD AND MAN'S SOUL, by Bruno Bettelheim.

Amazon.com review:

"In Freud and Man's Soul, Bettleheim discusses example after example of mistranslations of Freud's most important concepts, mistranslations that have served to cast psychoanalysis as an objective, exlusively clinical and quantitative science. Bettleheim argues with examples that Freud was motivated by his humanism, and strongly opposed to a merely behavioral science of psychoanalysis. He argues that in fact the persistent mistranslations of Freud by his translators can be traced in part to the unconscious desire to avoid taking any of this profound science of the soul to heart. Bettleheim thus has saved Freud's legacy from the trash can of sterile behavioral theories of clinically-minded American psychoanalysis. Among Bettleheim's more helpful discussions is in his objection to the "Ego-Id-Superego" trinity, as it is translated into English. The Latin forms are not only unnecessary, as Freud was using common German pronouns, but an obstacle to understanding what Freud meant most to convey: these are parts of us, of me, and not just abstract concepts describing others. Bettleheim offers the alternative "Me-It-Over(or Upper)Me" as consistent with Freud's intent, which was in part to involve our souls, our affections, in understanding ourselves. Reading Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams suggested to me that there was much more to Freud's thought than popular culture suggests; Bettleheim has made some sense of the pervasive distortion, and how we might undermine it."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Hardback 1983.

112 pages.

Underlining on some pages, but the text still fully legible. Otherwise very good condition.

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