Glory Reflected: Sigmund Freud - Man And Father
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call the father of psychoanalysis simply Father? Glory Reflected offers an intimate and uniquely personal portrait of Sigmund Freud, as seen through the eyes of his eldest son, Martin Freud. Drawing on decades of cherished memories, Martin chronicles his father not as the monumental intellectual figure the world revered, but as a warm, humorous, and deeply human patriarch — a man who loved mountain hiking, card games, and the company of his family with unguarded enthusiasm. This memoir stands apart from the voluminous academic literature on Sigmund Freud by presenting the domestic and private man behind the legendary mind. Martin's prose is candid and affectionate, carrying the reader into the Freud household in Vienna and beyond, illustrating the textures of a bourgeois Jewish family navigating a rapidly transforming Europe. More than a filial tribute, Glory Reflected raises a quietly haunting question: how does one forge an identity of one's own when the world insists on seeing you only as a reflection of another's greatness?
Author: Martin Freud
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Angus & Robertson
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to grow up in the shadow of a titan — to call the father of psychoanalysis simply Father? Glory Reflected offers an intimate and uniquely personal portrait of Sigmund Freud, as seen through the eyes of his eldest son, Martin Freud. Drawing on decades of cherished memories, Martin chronicles his father not as the monumental intellectual figure the world revered, but as a warm, humorous, and deeply human patriarch — a man who loved mountain hiking, card games, and the company of his family with unguarded enthusiasm. This memoir stands apart from the voluminous academic literature on Sigmund Freud by presenting the domestic and private man behind the legendary mind. Martin's prose is candid and affectionate, carrying the reader into the Freud household in Vienna and beyond, illustrating the textures of a bourgeois Jewish family navigating a rapidly transforming Europe. More than a filial tribute, Glory Reflected raises a quietly haunting question: how does one forge an identity of one's own when the world insists on seeing you only as a reflection of another's greatness?