Freud: The Man And The Cause: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Few figures in modern history have reshaped the landscape of human self-understanding as profoundly as Sigmund Freud, and Ronald W. Clark's landmark biography presents the full, unvarnished portrait of the man behind the myth. From his origins in the Jewish communities of nineteenth-century Central Europe to the intellectual revolution he ignited from his consulting room in Vienna, Clark chronicles Freud's relentless pursuit of a science of the mind — a pursuit that would fracture friendships, provoke furious opposition, and ultimately transform Western civilisation. Clark, celebrated for his authoritative biographies of Einstein and other titan intellects, brings the same forensic rigour and narrative sweep to this definitive life of Freud. Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and interviews, he illuminates not only the genesis of psychoanalysis but the fierce personal ambitions, political pressures, and private contradictions that shaped its founder. The result is a biography that refuses easy veneration — raising the question of whether Freud's greatest creation was psychoanalysis itself, or the towering legend of Sigmund Freud.
Author: Ronald W. Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Random House
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Few figures in modern history have reshaped the landscape of human self-understanding as profoundly as Sigmund Freud, and Ronald W. Clark's landmark biography presents the full, unvarnished portrait of the man behind the myth. From his origins in the Jewish communities of nineteenth-century Central Europe to the intellectual revolution he ignited from his consulting room in Vienna, Clark chronicles Freud's relentless pursuit of a science of the mind — a pursuit that would fracture friendships, provoke furious opposition, and ultimately transform Western civilisation. Clark, celebrated for his authoritative biographies of Einstein and other titan intellects, brings the same forensic rigour and narrative sweep to this definitive life of Freud. Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and interviews, he illuminates not only the genesis of psychoanalysis but the fierce personal ambitions, political pressures, and private contradictions that shaped its founder. The result is a biography that refuses easy veneration — raising the question of whether Freud's greatest creation was psychoanalysis itself, or the towering legend of Sigmund Freud.