Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology by George Prochnik
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Overview: An innovative work of biography that traces the lasting impact of the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering American psychologist James Jackson Putnam.
In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to “Putnam Camp”–the eminent American psychologist James Jackson Putnam’s family retreat in the Adirondacks. “Of all the things that I have experienced in America, this is by far the most amazing,” Freud wrote of Putnam Camp. Putnam, a Boston Unitarian, and Freud, a Viennese Jew, came from opposite worlds, cherished polarized ambitions, and promoted seemingly irreconcilable visions of human nature–and yet they struck up an unusually fruitful collaboration. Putnam’s unimpeachable reputation played a crucial role in legitimizing the psychoanalytic movement. By the time of Putnam’s death in 1918, psychoanalysis had been launched in America, where–in large part thanks to the influence of Putnam, and in a development Freud had not anticipated–it went on to become a practice that moved beyond the vicissitudes of desire to cultivate the growth and spiritual aspirations of the individual as a whole.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, Psychology
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