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Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory (Vintage) (edit title/settings)

by Bruno Bettelheim (Author) (edit contributors)

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Argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud's work in English and led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority.

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As a child born into a middle-class, assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, I was raised and educated in an environment that was in many respects identical with the one that had formed Freud's background.

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