четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

SIGMUND FREUD // Giant of the mind still towers over his critics

Freud A Life for Our Time. By Peter Gay. Norton. $25.

Our truly great are seminal thinkers, who bet their lives ongrand insights, who discover and map new universes. They dare all inthe name of art or science, and they alter our world, so that everygeneration is transformed, and sees these giants fresh.

No great man or woman risked more than Sigmund Freud, or, it maybe argued, suffered more in one embattled lifetime - rejection,ridicule, betrayal, persecution, cancer, exile - and above all,mistranslation and misinterpretation. He has been dead almost half acentury; he has been reviled and revised, in and out of fashion,mourned and mocked; but his name is a household …

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