New PDF release: Freud

By Élisabeth Roudinesco,Catherine Porter

ISBN-10: 0674659562

ISBN-13: 9780674659568

Élisabeth Roudinesco’s daring reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century—a sympathetic but neutral appraisal of a genius well known yet misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his personality and inspiration, she perspectives Freud much less as a systematic philosopher than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.

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