Freud

A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

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Paperback | 1 May 2006

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866 Pages

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Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth by reissuing Peter Gay's best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction.
A "New York Times" bestseller, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. 72 illustrations.

Industry Reviews

"Intelligent and wholly absorbing... Judicious, original biography, scrupulously grounded in close readings of [Freud's] work." -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times "Remarkable ... briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." -- Chicago Tribune "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." -- J Anthony Lukas "Elegant ... puts Freud's life into the context of his time while attempting to explain him for readers who cannot escape his shadow. In Gay's hands, the Olympian figure is almost within mortal reach." -- Michael Skube - News and Observer "Brilliant... A dazzling performance... Gay's ability to integrate into a coherent whole the vast published and unpublished literature on Freud-including hundreds of previously unknown or inaccessible letters-is awesome... A work of art." -- Jonathan Sharp - San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

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