Sigmund Freud is a central figure in the transition from late Victorian English science and culture to twentieth-century conceptions and practices of neurobiology and psychotherapy. In his book Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis, Steven Marcus traces the dynamics and contradictions that underscored the inception of psychoanalysis as a theory, as a discipline of inquiry into the narration and interpretation of human experience, and as a new kind of therapy. Psychiatrist Arnold Cooper and Marcus discuss Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis.
At the time of this interview, Cooper was professor of psychiatry and director of training at Cornell Medical Center. Marcus, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1980-82) and a trustee of the Center, was professor of English at Columbia University.
This episode of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
