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Enter the world of Sigmund Freud: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, fruitful and embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories, struggling toward his discoveries, quarreling with his discipl... More

Enter the world of Sigmund Freud: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, fruitful and embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories, struggling toward his discoveries, quarreling with his disciples.

But the book is more than biography. The author's explanations of Freud's theories of dreams and sexuality, development and neurosis, love and hate are a brilliant review of pschoanalytic thought.

Freud emerges whole--student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, Jew, victim and victor. As W.H. Auden said of him, he is "...no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion."