
Freud
Richard Wollheim(Author)
Fontana Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
322 pages
978-0-00-729194-6 (ISBN)
Description
'A lucid well-organized expose of the theory and the manner of its development.'
Times Literary Supplement
This remarkable book is a biography of an unusual kind. It is at once the life of a mind at work, and the story of a long and intricate process of discovery. It takes the form of a stern and uncompromising analysis, and yet the author is so much in tune with his subject that the personality, and even the feelings, of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his contemporaries emerge from that analysis. Readers will also sense the effect of the frightening enlargement of the known area of human unhappiness that Freud's work revealed.
Times Literary Supplement
This remarkable book is a biography of an unusual kind. It is at once the life of a mind at work, and the story of a long and intricate process of discovery. It takes the form of a stern and uncompromising analysis, and yet the author is so much in tune with his subject that the personality, and even the feelings, of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his contemporaries emerge from that analysis. Readers will also sense the effect of the frightening enlargement of the known area of human unhappiness that Freud's work revealed.
Reviews / Votes
'No mere potted guide this, but a genuinely original study. Richard Wollheim has not only trpduced one of the best available introductions to Freud's life and work, he has also written it with extreme clarity and with as little intrusion as possible.'The Times
'A good concise account of the life and works of Sigmund Freud, useful for someone seeking a general view before plunging into the thought of the great man himself.'
Economist
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
251 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-729194-6 (9780007291946)
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Richard Wollheim
Freud
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12/1995
2nd Edition
Fontana Press
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