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Becoming William James / Howard Feinstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: With a New IntroductionDescription: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501721489
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150/.92/4 19
LOC classification:
  • BF109.J28 F44 1984
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs -- DRAWINGS -- Introduction -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- BOOK ONE: GRANDFATHER -- 1. Tenants Become Landlords -- BOOK TWO: FATHER -- 2. A Crime against Childhood -- 3. Flight from Union -- 4. A Conflict of Wills -- 5. Ideology for a Prodigal -- 6. Words and Work -- BOOK THREE: SON -- 7. A Painter's Vocation -- 8. The Murdered Self -- 9. Evolution at Harvard -- 10. Basic Science vs. the Humbug of Medicine -- 11. Vacation in Brazil -- 12. The Use and Abuse of Illness -- 13. An Invalid Physician -- 14. A Singular Life -- 15. An Ontological Window -- 16. Two Brothers at War and a Sister at Home -- 17. Declining Fortunes -- 18. A Sort of Fatality -- 19. Professor James -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Summary: For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and published texts, Becoming William James provides a convincing biographical analysis rich in detail and tone. In his new introduction, Howard M. Feinstein adds biological psychiatry to psychoanalytic and family systems theories to inform our understanding of a complex man. In addition, he discusses whether James's mental illness might have been treated with drugs.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs -- DRAWINGS -- Introduction -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- BOOK ONE: GRANDFATHER -- 1. Tenants Become Landlords -- BOOK TWO: FATHER -- 2. A Crime against Childhood -- 3. Flight from Union -- 4. A Conflict of Wills -- 5. Ideology for a Prodigal -- 6. Words and Work -- BOOK THREE: SON -- 7. A Painter's Vocation -- 8. The Murdered Self -- 9. Evolution at Harvard -- 10. Basic Science vs. the Humbug of Medicine -- 11. Vacation in Brazil -- 12. The Use and Abuse of Illness -- 13. An Invalid Physician -- 14. A Singular Life -- 15. An Ontological Window -- 16. Two Brothers at War and a Sister at Home -- 17. Declining Fortunes -- 18. A Sort of Fatality -- 19. Professor James -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

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For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and published texts, Becoming William James provides a convincing biographical analysis rich in detail and tone. In his new introduction, Howard M. Feinstein adds biological psychiatry to psychoanalytic and family systems theories to inform our understanding of a complex man. In addition, he discusses whether James's mental illness might have been treated with drugs.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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