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Psychoanalysis eats its own: or, the heretical Saint Roazen.

Todd Dufresne¹

¹Lakehead Univ., Ontario

Psychoanalysis and History

|October 1, 2009

Summary

Paul Roazen

Area of Science:

Psychoanalytic history
Biography
Intellectual history

Background:

This essay examines the career of Paul Roazen, a biographer-historian of psychoanalysis.
It analyzes his work in relation to other revisionist critics of Sigmund Freud.

Discussion:

Roazen's career is divided into four phases, with his early work on Victor Tausk and Freud's followers being particularly significant and controversial.
Later works, however, saw a decline in scholarly standing due to over-reliance on interviews and a self-regarding approach.

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