Publisher's Synopsis
Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, and his name has become a landmark in cultural history. His theories concerning sexuality, memory, dreams, self-deception and the unconscious mind created a furore when first advanced and have never ceased to invite controversy. In recent times, both the man and the discipline he invented-psychoanalysis-have come under reevaluation (and attack) on both sides of the Atlantic. This book depicts Freud's life and ideas, from his birth above a blacksmith's forge in a secluded corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his death in 1939 in London, where he had come as a refugee from Nazi Europe.
