![]() He analyzes Freud the psychoanalyst as politician, seeking support for his controversial findings. And we encounter Freud, always energetic, often troubled and sometimes vindictive, as his ideas spread from a small inner circle in Vienna, through Europe, across the ocean to the United States-and the world.ĭrawing on a vast instructive store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay probes Freud's mind, uncovers Freud's passions, and follows Freud's astonishing career. We are there as he struggles toward his discoveries, haunted by the problems he poses for himself, brooding over his publications, quarreling with his disciples. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. ![]() ![]() To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, extraordinarily fruitful and embattled life. ![]()
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