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  • Hardcover: 288 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: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 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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It's a fascinating book: crisp, pacy, accessible, relevant.


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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent and accessible, 1 Sep 2007
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Sjigmund Freud, 15 Nov 2007
By Mr. Ivor Hibbitt "Hibbo" (France) - See all my reviews
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Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! The blood-chilling salute echoes dpwm the years. surrounded by images of the SS, the Gestapo and The Final Solution for the extermination of all Jews. Vienne, l938 and the Germans are at the gates. about to enter Austria and join Hitler's birthplace to the Greater Reich. The Fuhrer rants, his body jerking with his own tension and he screams: One Nation, One People, One Leader.
While the stormtroops await orders, the great thinker Sigmund Freud is in his Vienna study, smoking a cigar and in a nanosecond of thought, tells himself the rise of facisism was inevitable. He wonders how he can protect his family against the barbarians, and he wonders what there is for tea. He can almost feel the shaking as the world teeters on the brink.
Vienna, city of excellence, cultured and sophisticated, is where both leaders were present although they only met through subsidiaries, military and officials. Freud was the academic; Hitler the bloody-stained assassin. Yet Professor Mark Edmundson's thoughtful and brilliant book, The Death of Sigmund Freud sis the uplifting story of a dignified family's ordeal against terror and evil. Some of the Cote d'Azure men's book club wondered why the author concentrated on Hitler and Freud and the answer may be that a Good and Bad plot is unbeatable. The result here is "great read". We follow Freud, an old man in his eighties and his wife Martha when she opens the front door to the Nazi thugs. She invites them to put their rifles in the umbrella stand. They decline. She and daughter Anna put all their money on a table and invite the thugs to help themselves. Enter Freud, white beard bristling, glasses glinting and one fierce stare scatters tgen like mice. Defiant captive Anna mentally defeats the Gestapod. Snapshots of terror; a boy jeered by a mob as he is forced to paint Jude outside his father's shop, old people being beaten up, children wrenched from their parents. An emotional flood of man's inhumanity.
A flashback; Freud lecturing in America and being feted, yet he hated the American religion, the pursuit of the dollar and later, when Roosevelt is instrumental in freeing him from the German yoke, he does not change his mind. Freud had foibles like everyone else, he rejected big cash offers to write for American publishers. He had a satirical sense of humour. The Nazis made him sign a form saying he had been treated well and he wrote on it "I highly recomnmend the Gestapo to everybody" War clouds in London and now daily torture from jawbone cancer despite which he still smokes his cigars. Freud delver and interpreter of the subconscious, asks his doctor not to forsake him. The decision is left to Anna. She says yes though her tears and morphine ends the pain. Hitler killed himself seventeen years later. Freud, one feels, died with more dignity.
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