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Article: Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- April 21, 2007
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FREUD'S WIZARD: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
BRENDA MADDOX
Today, Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concepts of ego, repressed memories, and developmental stages are familiar to most people. Maddox contends, however, that Freud and his work might have sunk into obscurity were it not for the efforts of Ernest Jones, an eccentric but devoted translator of Freud's writings. Maddox, a biographer of figures such as D.H. Lawrence and William Butler Yeats, details Jones' colorful life. Mired in suspicions of child abuse and philandering, Jones seemed destined to remain an unremarkable, ...