![]() It offers, not including notes, 666 pages - what would Freud the occultist make of that? - of diligently documented ugliness. Now, 11 years in the works, comes his capstone biography of the Master, Sigmund Freud: The Making of an Illusion (Metropolitan Books). ![]() He has urged a clear-eyed view not just of psychoanalytic theory but of the integrity, process, and motivations of Freud the man. Sigmund Freud may be out of fashion, but who could dispute his profound contributions to science and culture?įrederick Crews could - and has, for close to four decades. Promethean revealer of the unconscious dedicated healer of the neurotic self-effacing scholar beloved husband brilliant protégé devoted mentor endearing literary stylist bold cultural explorer. Universal History Archive, Getty Images Does scholarly regard for psychoanalytic theory rise and fall alongside Sigmund Freud’s own problematic reputation and personal history? That, says one critic of a new biography on the founder of psychoanalysis, is “a very reductionist way of thinking.” ![]()
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