From Shtetl to Boulevard
Paul Keegan: Freud’s Mother, 5 October 2017
Freud: In His Time and Ours
by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Catherine Porter.
Harvard, 580 pp., £27.95, November 2016,978 0 674 65956 8 Show More
by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Catherine Porter.
Harvard, 580 pp., £27.95, November 2016,
Freud: An Intellectual Biography
by Joel Whitebook.
Cambridge, 484 pp., £30, February 2017,978 0 521 86418 3 Show More
by Joel Whitebook.
Cambridge, 484 pp., £30, February 2017,
“... his tyrannies, and their plaintiveness has an air of resentment against his refusals to do so. Joel Whitebook’s early and partly rueful admission that by now ‘we are all orphans’ refers to the distance in time but also the legacy of disenchantment left by all Freud’s abdications of authority, especially in the later writings. It is as if, with ... ”
