by Mark Edmundson (Author)
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London. Edmundson probes Freud's ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and grapples with the demise of psychoanalysis after Freud's death now that religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 18 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0747592985
ISBN 13: 9780747592983
Book Overview: Mark Edmundson is an established, widely published Freud scholar, who edited Beyond the Pleasure Principle for the Penguin centenary edition of Freud. The hardback of The Death of Sigmund Freud received amazing reviews from all the critics The Death of Sigmund Freud offers a revolutionary assessment of Freud's legacy and is a compelling, thrilling read As read on BBC Radio 4