Book description
This remarkable book can be described as "biography", but it is 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, abd yet the author is so much in tune with his subject that the personality, and even the feelings, of Freud and his contemporaries emerge from the analysis. Reading it we sense the effect of the frightening enlargement of the known area of human unhappiness that Freud’s work revealed.
