The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days
By Mark Edmundson.
Description
A dramatic revisiting of Freud's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna, his final days on earth, and his most controversial work--Moses and Monotheism.When Hitler invaded Vienna in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. The Nazis hated Sigmund Freud with a particular vehemence: they detested his "soul-destroying glorification of the instinctual life." Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on Freud's last two years, during which, with the help of...
ISBN(s)
1582345376, 9781582345376
