Sigmund Freud: His Life In Pictures And Words
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures have reshaped the landscape of human self-understanding as profoundly as Sigmund Freud, and Sigmund Freud: His Life in Pictures and Words stands as the most intimate and authoritative portrait of the man behind the legend. Compiled by his own son Ernst Freud, alongside Lucie Freud and the distinguished scholar Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, this richly assembled volume chronicles the arc of Freud's life from his childhood in Freiberg to his final exile in London, weaving together rare photographs, personal correspondence, and carefully curated documents to construct a vivid, multidimensional narrative. A biographical sketch by the eminent psychoanalytic historian K. R. Eissler lends scholarly weight to the proceedings, grounding the personal in the historical and intellectual. Beyond its role as a visual record, this volume presents a rare opportunity to witness the private world of a revolutionary thinker — his family life, his friendships, and the personal struggles that shadowed his monumental achievements. Designed with meticulous care by Willy Fleckhaus, the book is itself a work of art, balancing aesthetic elegance with biographical rigour. For readers drawn to the history of ideas, the psychology of genius, or the intimate machinery of a life lived at the frontier of human thought, this remarkable compendium asks a quietly unsettling question: how well can we ever truly know the man who claimed to know us best?
Author: Ernst Freud, Lucie Freud And Ilse Grubrich-Simitis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few figures have reshaped the landscape of human self-understanding as profoundly as Sigmund Freud, and Sigmund Freud: His Life in Pictures and Words stands as the most intimate and authoritative portrait of the man behind the legend. Compiled by his own son Ernst Freud, alongside Lucie Freud and the distinguished scholar Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, this richly assembled volume chronicles the arc of Freud's life from his childhood in Freiberg to his final exile in London, weaving together rare photographs, personal correspondence, and carefully curated documents to construct a vivid, multidimensional narrative. A biographical sketch by the eminent psychoanalytic historian K. R. Eissler lends scholarly weight to the proceedings, grounding the personal in the historical and intellectual. Beyond its role as a visual record, this volume presents a rare opportunity to witness the private world of a revolutionary thinker — his family life, his friendships, and the personal struggles that shadowed his monumental achievements. Designed with meticulous care by Willy Fleckhaus, the book is itself a work of art, balancing aesthetic elegance with biographical rigour. For readers drawn to the history of ideas, the psychology of genius, or the intimate machinery of a life lived at the frontier of human thought, this remarkable compendium asks a quietly unsettling question: how well can we ever truly know the man who claimed to know us best?