Paul Roazen (August 14, 1936, in

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– November 3, 2005) was a

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who became a preeminent historian of

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Life

Roazen received his A.B. at

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in 1958. He then studied at the

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and

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, Oxford, before returning to Harvard for his PhD dissertation, which bore on Freud's political and social thought. After teaching at Harvard as an assistant professor in Government, he taught Social and Political Science at

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in Toronto from 1971 until his early retirement in 1995. In 1965 Roazen began to interview surviving friends, relatives, colleagues and patients of

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts in ...

. His first 'big' book, 1975's ''Freud and His Followers'', was based on hundreds of hours of interviews with patients and students of Freud. The resulting portrait of Freud illustrated biases and indiscretions that seemed inconsistent with his stated methods. This was a path-breaking and influential work, which remains a basic reference for historians of psychoanalysis today. Roazen was the first non-psychoanalyst whom

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allowed to access the archives of the British Psychoanalytic Institute. He was able to see the huge amount of material

Ernest Jones Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...

had used to write his biography of Freud. In 1993 Roazen became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2004 he became an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His papers are collected in the Paul Roazen Collection of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center,

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. On November 3, 2005, he died at age 69 at his home in Cambridge from complications of

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. He was survived by two sons, one of whom is professor of comparative literature Daniel Heller-Roazen.

Writings

Author * ''Freud: Political and Social Thought'', New York, Knopf, 1968 * ''Brother Animal: The Story of Freud and Tausk'', N.Y., Knopf, 1969 * ''Freud and his Followers'', New York, Knopf, 1975 * '' Erik H. Erikson: The Power and Limits of a Vision'', N.Y., The Free Press, 1976 * ''

Helene Deutsch Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where s ...

: A Psychoanalyst’s Life'', N.Y., Doubleday, 1985 * "Freud's last will", in ''Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis'', 18(3), 1990, 383–385. * ''Encountering Freud: The Politics and Histories of Psychoanalysis'', New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 1990 * ''Meeting Freud’s Family'', Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1993 * ''Heresy:

Sandor Rado Sandor Rado ( hu, Radó Sándor; 8 January 1890, Kisvárda – 14 May 1972, New York City) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst of the second generation, who moved to the United States of America in the 1930s. According to Peter Gay, "Budapest produce ...

and the Psychoanalytic Movement'', with Bluma Swerdloff, Northvale, N.J., Aronson, 1995 * ''How Freud Worked: First-Hand Accounts of Patients'', Northvale, N.J., J. Aronson, 1995 * ''Canada’s King: An Essay in Political Psychology'', Oakville, Ontario, Mosaic Press, 1998 * ''Oedipus in Britain: Edward Glover and the Struggle over Klein'', N.Y., Other Press, 2000 * ''Political Theory and the Psychology of the Unconscious: Freud, J. S. Mill, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Fromm, Bettelheim, and Erikson'', London, Open Gate Press, 2000 * ''The Historiography of Psychoanalysis'', New Brunswick (US) ; London (UK), Transaction Publishers, 2001 * ''The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis'', New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 2002 * ''Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology'', New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 2003 * ''On The Freud Watch: Public Memoirs'', London,

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, 2003 * ''

Edoardo Weiss Edoardo Weiss (1889-1970) was the earliest Italian psychoanalyst, and the founder of psychoanalysis in Italy. His most important theoretical contributions were perhaps to the development of ego state theory. Weiss's first article, on the psych ...

: The House that Freud Built'', New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 2005 Editor *

Victor Tausk Victor Tausk (also Viktor; March 12, 1879 – July 3, 1919) was a pioneer psychoanalyst and neurologist. A student and a colleague of Sigmund Freud, he was the earliest exponent of psychoanalytical concepts with regard to clinical psychosis and t ...

: ''Sexuality, War, and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers'', edited and with an introduction by Paul Roazen, translations by Eric Mosbacher and others. Taylor & Francis, 1991.

References

* ''Freud Under Analysis: History, Theory, Practice: Essays in Honor of Paul Roazen'', ed. by Todd Dufresne. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1997. *Dufresne, Todd (2007). “Psychoanalysis Eats Its Own: Or, The Heretical Saint Roazen,” in Psychoanalysis and History, ed. J. Forrester, 9(1): 93–109. * Hans-Jürgen Wirth: „Nachruf auf Paul Roazen“ in: ''Freie Assoziation - Das Unbewusste in Organisationen und Kultur'', 9. Jahrgang, Heft 01/2006 –

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