- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (6 Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747586071
- ISBN-13: 978-0747586074
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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'By tracing the intersecting stories of Sigmund Freud and Adolph Hitler in the days before World War II, Mark Edmundson sheds a fresh light on one of the most pressing questions of our day: the allure of fundamentalist politics and the threat it poses to the values of civilization. The Death of Sigmund Freud is a bracing, brilliant, and urgent book.' Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire 'The Death of Sigmund Freud is a story about just how confused we are by our craving for authority. In Edmundson's riveting book Freud becomes at once more remarkable as a writer, and more ordinary as a person, a figure to be reckoned with rather than to revere. There has not been a better book on why Freud might matter now - and on why culture-heroes matter at all - for a very long time.' Adam Phillips, author of Side-Effects and Going Sane
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Immediately joins the short list of works about Freud that are accessible to the general reader while still reflecting the complexity and paradox of their subject. Against a tense narrative backdrop, it explores Freud's later thoughts on society, power and authority, interspersed with more intimate commentaries on his relations with the surroundings of his last days (his dogs, his cigars, his antiquities etc.). Free from jargon and from a too obvious devotion to the psychoanalytic method, it can be recommended as an introduction to Freud's thought, and to the man himself.
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This is a thought-provoking and gripping book. Edmundson uses a novelist's skills to tell the story of how Sigmund Freud was forced to leave Vienna and spend his last days in London, bringing Freud's complex personality and circle of family, friends and colleagues to life. He vividly evokes the brooding run up to the Second World War and shows how Freud's thinking can help us understand the lure of fundamentalism. Totally recommended.
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If you want to seat beside Freud, meet the man behind his theories, see his house, his family, devastating results of his addiction to cigars and old time Vienna, here's the book for you. Very engaging biography of a brave, if somewhat neurotic mind.
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Excellent - enjoyable and very stimulating
Excellent - enjoyable and very stimulating. Peter Gay's long biography of Freud is a wonderful book. But I found Edmundson to be an excellent read afterwards. Read more
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This really is a most fascinating read!
Providing a truly insightful glimpse into Freud the man and Freud the icon of psychoanalysis, and set in layers of enthralling context, this book makes for a rather unique read! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Trish
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