Elisabeth Roudinesco's bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century-a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.
Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century - a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.
Elisabeth Roudinesco ist Historikerin, lehrt an der Universität Paris und ist Vizepräsidentin der Societe internationale d histoire de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihre "Geschichte der Psychoanalyse in Frankreich" und ihre Biographie über Jacques Lacan.
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Élisabeth Roudinescös bold reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud is a biography for the twenty-first century¿a sympathetic yet impartial appraisal of a genius admired but misunderstood in his time and ours. Alert to tensions in his character and thought, she views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as an interpreter of civilization and culture.
