An Analytical Biography
'Freud' is a piercing new biography that reveals an unexplored side of the legendary father of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) is one of the great figures of the twentieth century, the father of modern psychoanalysis who dared to delve into the dark regions of the human psyche - and his own - to uncover the inner truths of sexuality, love neurosis and the unconscious.
Louis Breger, one of today's leading psychoanalysts, now cuts past the myth to offer a penetrating analysis of Freud as a man of fascinating complexity, whose great accomplishments stem from the same sources as his significant failures and weaknesses. Someone whose startling originality coexisted with a rigid adherence to dogma; a healer who spent his life immersed in the intimate details of other people's lives, yet remained wrapped up in himself and curiously remote from others.
