Strange Dislocations Childhood and the Idea of Human Inferiority, 1780-1930

"'Strange Dislocations' illuminates several intriguing byways of Victorian popular culture. It also casts some provocative light on 20th-century thinking. Ms. Steedman's most interesting pages discuss how Sigmund Freud (a Victorian, after all) drew on contemporary notions of childhood, littleness and loss in constructing his view of the unconscious, the child at the heart of the theory, as well as at the heart of the psychoanalytic body."Steedman, Carolyn is the author of 'Strange Dislocations Childhood and the Idea of Human Inferiority, 1780-1930', published 1995 under ISBN 9780674839786 and ISBN 0674839781.