On the Couch

Andrew Blauner

Language: English

Published: Feb 5, 2024

Description:

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by André Aciman

  • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan
  • Susie Boyt
  • Gerald Early
  • Esther Freud
  • Rivka Galchen
  • Adam Gopnik
  • David Gordon
  • Siri Hustvedt
  • Sheila Kohler
  • Peter D. Kramer
  • Phillip Lopate
  • Thomas Lynch
  • Daphne Merkin
  • David Michaelis
  • Rick Moody
  • Susie Orbach
  • Richard Panek
  • Alex Pheby
  • Michael S. Roth
  • Casey Schwartz
  • Mark Solms
  • Colm Tóibín
  • Sherry Turkle
    W. H. Auden described Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) as "a whole climate of opinion / Under whom we conduct our differing lives." The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Freud charted the human...