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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information 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 tex- tured 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 anthro- pology; from philosophy to psychology, education and literature. Freud in Cambridge will be welcomed as a major intervention by literary scholars, historians, psychoanalysts and all readers interested in twentieth-century intellectual and scientific life. john forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015) was Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences in the University of Cambridge and head of the HPS department for seven years. He was Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and History from 2005 to 2014 and authored Freud’s Women (1992) with Lisa Appignanesi, Dispatches from the Freud Wars (1997) and Truth Games (1997), amongst others. He published over fifty papers in scholarly journals, principally concerned with the history and philosophy of psychoanalysis. His work on cases as a genre and as a style of reasoning was posthumously published as Thinking in Cases (2016). laura cameron is an Associate Professor of historical geography at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She is the author of Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake (1997), and co-editor of Emotion, Place and Culture (2009) and Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness (2011), and has published numerous papers on the history of fieldwork, psychoanalysis, ecology and sound. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information Cambridge city centre, c. 1927. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information Other books by John Forrester Thinking in Cases Truth Games: Lies, Money, and Psychoanalysis Dispatches from the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions Freud’s Women, with Lisa Appignanesi The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis Other books by Laura Cameron Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness (co-editor) with Andrew Baldwin and Audrey Kobayashi Emotion, Place and Culture (co-editor) with Mick Smith, Joyce Davidson and Liz Bondi Openings: A Meditation on History, Method and Sumas Lake © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information FREUD IN CAMBRIDGE JOHN FORRESTER AND LAURA CAMERON © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb28bs,UnitedKingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521861908 © John Forrester and Laura Cameron 2017 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2017 Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library isbn 978-0-521-86190-8 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-67995-4 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Illustrations page viii Preface xi Acknowledgements xv List of Abbreviations xvii 1 Introduction 1 2 Tansley’s Dream 7 3 W.H.R. Rivers, the English Freud 57 4 Becoming Freudian in Cambridge: Undergraduates and Psychoanalysis 100 5 Discipline Formation – Psychology, English, Philosophy 203 6 The 1925 Group 363 7 The Malting House Garden School 432 8 A Psychoanalytic Debate in 1925 475 9 Bloomsbury Analysts 505 10 Freud in Cambridge? 613 Bibliography 649 Index 681 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information Illustrations Frontispiece Cambridge city centre, c. 1927. page ii 2.1 Arthur George Tansley, IPE 1949. By permission of the 8 Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 2.2 Arthur Tansley as a Cambridge undergraduate, c. 1893. 10 By permission of the Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library. 2.3 Arthur and Edith Tansley, IPE 1913. By permission of the 13 Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. 2.4 E. Margaret ‘Margot’ Hume at Newnham College, 1909. 48 By permission of the Principal and Fellows, Newnham College, Cambridge. 3.1 William Halse Rivers Rivers, c. 1917. By permission of the 61 Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge. 3.2 W.H.R. Rivers, photo by Layard, Atchin, 1914. Reproduced 85 by permission of University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (P.3556.ACH1). 3.3 W.H.R. Rivers and the Torres Straits Expedition, 1898. 89 Reproduced by permission of University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (N.23035. ACH2). 4.1 Edgar Adrian in the laboratory, c. 1935. © National 101 Portrait Gallery, London. 4.2 Charles Kay Ogden, c. 1916. Courtesy of McMaster 107 University Library. 4.3 The Cambridge Magazine bookshops Advertisement, 1921. 118 By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 4.4 Ernest Pickworth Farrow, by Harold Jeffreys, c. 1916. 129 By permission of the Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge. viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information List of Illustrations ix 4.5 D.W. Winnicott, in uniform, Cambridge, c. 1917. 138 By permission of the Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library. 4.6 Roger Money-Kyrle, painting by Christian Schad, 1926.© 148 VG Bild Kunst Bonn, Christian Schad Foundation, Aschaffenburg, Germany. 4.7 Kingsley Martin on the Brains Trust, 1943. © Hulton- 156 Deutsch Collection/CORBIS. 4.8 John Desmond Bernal, 1932. © Peter Lofts Photography 159 National Portrait Gallery, London. 4.9 Joseph Needham, c. 1937. © Peter Lofts Photography 187 National Portrait Gallery, London. 4.10 W.J.H. ‘Sebastian’ Sprott, Richard Braithwaite, and Mary 194 Sprott, early 1920s. By permission of Duncan Sprott. 5.1 Charles Myers recording, Torres Straits, 1898. Reproduced 236 by permission of University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (P.950.ACH1). 5.2 Henry Head and W.H.R. Rivers during an experiment in 237 nerve division, c. 1903. By permission of the Department of Psychology Archive, University of Cambridge. 5.3 John Thompson MacCurdy in his Corpus Christi College 265 rooms. By permission of the Department of Psychology Archive, University of Cambridge. 5.4 Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune, 1933. 283 Margaret Mead Papers and the South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 5.5 Ivor Armstrong Richards, 1924. By permission of the 302 Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge. 5.6 Bertrand Russell with pram, c. 1921. Courtesy of McMaster 322 University Library. 5.7 Ludwig Wittgenstein and Frank Skinner, Trinity Street, 344 Cambridge, 1935. By permission of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Trust. 6.1 John Rickman, c. 1925. By permission of the 365 Cambridgeshire Collection, Cambridge Central Library. 6.2 Lionel Penrose, 1922. By permission of UCL Library 375 Services, Special Collections. 6.3 Frank Ramsey aged eighteen. By permission of the Ludwig 395 Wittgenstein Trust, Cambridge. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-86190-8 — Freud in Cambridge John Forrester , Laura Cameron Frontmatter More Information x List of Illustrations 6.4 Lettice Ramsey, by Frances Baker, c. 1915. By permission of 402 the Principal and Fellows, Newnham College, Cambridge. 6.5 Harold Jeffreys in his St John’s College rooms. 407 By permission of the Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge. 6.6 Lionel Penrose, chess dream position. By permission 422 of UCL Library Services, Special Collections. 7.1 Malting House Garden School, 1927. Still from a film 434 produced by Mary Field of British Instructional Films Ltd reproduced from van der Eyken and Turner, 1969, plate 1, with permission from Janet Pyke. 7.2 Geoffrey and Margaret Pyke on honeymoon, 1918. 438 Courtesy of HarperCollins and with permission from Janet Pyke. 7.3 Susan Isaacs with children at the Malting House School.