6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
David Cronenberg's 2011 film dramatizing the relationships between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein — based on John Kerr's book and Christopher Hampton's play — with Michael Fassbender as Jung, Keira Knightley as Spielrein, and Viggo Mortensen as Freud.
John Kerr's 1993 historical study of the relationships between Freud, Jung, and Sabina Spielrein — reconstructing from letters and documents the creation of psychoanalysis, the Jung-Freud rupture, and the role of Spielrein as both patient and intellectual contributor.
Adam Curtis's 2002 BBC documentary series tracing how Freudian theory was used by Edward Bernays and his successors to manipulate mass consumer behavior and political opinion — arguing that the 20th century's mass consumer society was built on the deliberate manipulation of the unconscious.
Welsh psychoanalyst who was Freud's official biographer — writing the three-volume Sigmund Freud: Life and Work — and who founded the British Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association, making him the most politically powerful figure in institutionalizing psychoanalysis.
German-Russian writer and psychoanalyst who was one of the most remarkable intellectual women of the late 19th and early 20th century — famously refusing Nietzsche's marriage proposal, inspiring Rilke's greatest poetry, writing one of the first books on Nietzsche, and becoming one of Freud's closest associates.
German-American historian at Yale and Columbia — born Peter Fröhlich in Berlin, fled Nazism — who wrote the definitive two-volume history of the Enlightenment (The Enlightenment: An Interpretation) and major biographies of Freud and the bourgeoisie.