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With painstaking, often brilliant exegesis of Freud's dreams in political, cultural and scientific context, historian McGrath illuminates unexplored or misunderstood aspects of the pre-history of psychoanalysis. This scholarly but readable study of the political and philosophical context of Freud's work amends or corrects biographies by Jones, Ellenberger, Clark, and Sulloway, and refutes Masson's Assault on Truth. Using newly available letters, McGrath documents Freud's imaginative and intellectual development, albeit in generally Freudian (e.g., oeidipal) terms. Idealizing his reconciliation with a passive father, the book views Freud's turning away from politics as a dignified, realistic response to anti-Semitism, and glosses over his mistreatment of Breuer and Fliess. Essential for serious students of Freud and his period. E. James Lieberman, Psychiatry Dept., George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
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