Marie Bonaparte: A Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Princess, scholar, and devoted disciple of Sigmund Freud — Marie Bonaparte was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, and Celia Bertin's biography presents her life with the full weight it deserves. Born into the Napoleonic dynasty and married into the Greek royal family, Marie transcended the gilded cage of aristocracy to become a pioneering psychoanalyst, a published theorist, and the woman who single-handedly rescued Freud from Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938. Bertin chronicles her subject's relentless pursuit of self-understanding, tracing Marie's path from a childhood shadowed by loss and emotional neglect to the highest circles of European intellectual life. Bertin writes with the precision of a biographer and the empathy of a novelist, drawing on private correspondence and clinical records to illuminate a woman of profound contradictions — royal yet rebellious, privileged yet tormented. The biography raises searching questions about female desire, the nature of scientific obsession, and the courage required to live authentically in a world structured to silence women. For anyone drawn to the intersection of psychology, history, and the drama of a life fully lived, this is an essential and unforgettable portrait.
Author: Celia Bertin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Princess, scholar, and devoted disciple of Sigmund Freud — Marie Bonaparte was one of the most extraordinary women of the twentieth century, and Celia Bertin's biography presents her life with the full weight it deserves. Born into the Napoleonic dynasty and married into the Greek royal family, Marie transcended the gilded cage of aristocracy to become a pioneering psychoanalyst, a published theorist, and the woman who single-handedly rescued Freud from Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938. Bertin chronicles her subject's relentless pursuit of self-understanding, tracing Marie's path from a childhood shadowed by loss and emotional neglect to the highest circles of European intellectual life. Bertin writes with the precision of a biographer and the empathy of a novelist, drawing on private correspondence and clinical records to illuminate a woman of profound contradictions — royal yet rebellious, privileged yet tormented. The biography raises searching questions about female desire, the nature of scientific obsession, and the courage required to live authentically in a world structured to silence women. For anyone drawn to the intersection of psychology, history, and the drama of a life fully lived, this is an essential and unforgettable portrait.