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Paul Roazen (August 14, 1936,
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– November 3, 2005) was an American
political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
who became a preeminent historian of
psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...
.


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 psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...
. 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 pathbreaking and influential work, which remains a basic reference for historians of psychoanalysis today. Roazen was the first non-psychoanalyst whom
Anna Freud Anna Freud CBE ( ; ; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father a ...
allowed to access the archives of the British Psychoanalytic Institute. He was able to see the huge amount of material Ernest Jones 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: 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 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, Free Association Books, 2003 * '' Edoardo Weiss: The House that Freud Built'', New Brunswick, N.J., Transaction Publishers, 2005 Editor * Victor Tausk: ''Sexuality, War, and Schizophrenia: Collected Psychoanalytic Papers'', edited and with an introduction by Paul Roazen, translations by Eric Mosbacher and others. Taylor & Francis, 1991.


See also

* Henri Ellenberger *
Élisabeth Roudinesco Élisabeth Roudinesco (; born 10 September 1944) is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure. Roudinesco's work focuses mainly on psychiatry, psycholo ...


Notes


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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roazen, Paul 1936 births 2005 deaths Harvard University alumni Academic staff of York University American expatriate academics