Freud in Cambridge

Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the twentieth century''s most influential thinkers and scientists - but his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished untold buried under different accounts of the dissemination of psychoanalysis. John Forrester and Laura Cameron present a fascinating and deeply textured history of the ways in which a set of Freudian ideas about the workings of the human mind sexuality and the unconscious affected Cambridge men and women - from A. G. Tansley and W. H. R. Rivers to Bertrand Russell Bernal Strachey and Wittgenstein - shaping their thinking across a range of disciplines from biology to anthropology and from philosophy to psychology education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars historians and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life.