The question of objectivity in Freud’s biographic studies
The problem of objectivity in the writing of a biography has always haunted biographers. In the case of Freud’s biographic studies, this question is even more complex, since his first biographers were also psychoanalysts who tried to combine the biographic method with psychoanalysis. We initially di...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2019 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repository: | Memorandum (Belo Horizonte) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/6610 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/6610 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Biografia Sigmund Freud metodologia biography methodology |
| Summary: | The problem of objectivity in the writing of a biography has always haunted biographers. In the case of Freud’s biographic studies, this question is even more complex, since his first biographers were also psychoanalysts who tried to combine the biographic method with psychoanalysis. We initially discuss the relation of the biographer with his subject and the degree of objectivity that is possible to obtain when one narrates the life of another. The matter of transference and the distortions it introduces in the text is also approached. Next, we follow Freud’s biographers, going through texts since 1923 to comprehend how they work with the challenges of the biographer-biographed relation. |
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