The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

by Ernest Jones, Lionel Trilling (Editor), Steven Marcus (Editor)

Overview

Ernest Jones�s three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was first published in the mid-1950s. This edited and abridged volume omits the portions of the trilogy that dealt principally with the technical aspects of Freud�s work and is designed for the lay reader. Jones portrays Freud�s childhood and adolescence; the excitement and trials of his four-year engagement to Martha Bernays; his early experiments with hypnotism and cocaine; the slow rise of his reputation and constant battles against distortion and slander; the painful defections of close associates; the years of international eminence; the onset of cancer and his stoicism in the face of an agonizing death.

�One of the outstanding biographies of the age... It gives us an unmatched � and unretouched � portrait of Freud as a human being.� � The New York Times

�The definitive life of Freud and one of the great biographies of our time... Charged with intellectual excitement, it is a chronicle of heroic struggle and adventurous discovery.� � The Atlantic

�A landmark of literature, a remarkable appreciation of one of the remarkable spirits of the modern age.� � Scientific American

�Superb drama... Dr. Jones has managed to illuminate some obscure corners of Freud�s first years with a thoroughness that would have astonished, and might well have dismayed, the reticent and august Freud.� � The New Yorker

�A masterpiece of contemporary biography... The letters are also a fascinating guide to the man. From them emerges suddenly a tough, jealous, ferocious figure.� � Time

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149386031
Publisher:	Plunkett Lake Press
Publication date:	05/29/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	541
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

When he died in 1958 at the age of 79, Ernest Jones was one of the leading practitioners of psychoanalysis and one of its foremost champions. Born in Wales, Jones became the sole �foreigner� in the original circle of Freud�s co-workers in the early years of the 20th century and the first native English-speaking psychoanalyst. Until Freud�s death in 1939, he remained one of his closest friends and trusted associates. When the Freud family authorized a biography, they turned to Ernest Jones and he devoted almost the entire final decade of his life to the project. He himself once observed, if he should achieve immortality, it would be not as a pioneer in the science to which he had devoted his life, but as the biographer of Sigmund Freud.