The Death of Sigmund Freud - Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism

Zusatztext 'Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud's flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting' Informationen zum Autor Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Why Write? , Why Teach? , Why Read? , Teacher , The Death of Sigmund Freud , and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan and Harper's. He lives in Batesville, Virginia. Zusammenfassung When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. This book traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Edmundson
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.08.2008
• EAN: 9780747592983
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9298-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)