Freud the Man: An Intellectual Biography

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Another book about the life and work of Sigmund Freud?Hardly the subject to engage the average psychiatrist, or even apracticing psychoanalyst like myself. Lydia Flem wrote an earlier(1986) book on daily life in Vienna. She introduces thecurrent volume with the intriguing goal of "sketching out . . .the way Freud invents psychoanalytic theory on the basis of hisintimate metaphors" (p. x).’ ‹’ ‹