- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre; New edition edition (20 April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034061854X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340618547
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,481,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The old man waiting to die in Hampstead, his daughter by his side, has made an incalculable impact on our century. He is Sigmund Freud, here exploring his turbulent inner life, reviewing the past, revealing shameful secrets - and dreaming.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an awesome book, deserving of far more attention than its had. Funny, challenging, and very erotic. It takes Freuds psychoanalysis (something which rears it's head in most of Thomas' books) and turns it back onto Freud himself and his family with devastating aplomb. This guy is a major writer, and this is one of his finest books.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Stick with it
11 May 2010
This is one of the most bizarre books I have read. It is a fictionalized memoir of Freud in his last days. Reality and dreams mix freely, and until you realize that, the book will be confusing. But stick with it! Remember you're reading about the "brain" of the father of psychoanalysis, so indeed he is going to have weird dreams, interpretations, plus his medications exacerbate everything to unsuspecting points. I was quite entertained with this novel, and just because it is not linear and follows an A-B-C scheme, it should not be dismissed.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Freudian or Frivolous
11 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Any reasonably sized trash dump is loaded with multi-layered complexity and interesting items for us to discover, but it still smells rather bad. Thomas presents a dying Freud, his mind awash with drugs and inconsistent memories flowing into a quasi-fictional Freud drawn from the admitted lies of his journals and finally a strangely clairvoyant Freud who sees snippets of the future and completely misinterprets the message each time -- a bumbling mortal that seems to only remember the naughty bits with any clarity. What was the point?
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