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Freud - The Definitive Biography: The True Story of the Father of Psychoanalysis
Paperback
Series: Behind the Theory: The Lives of the Great Psychoanalysts, Book 1
Biographies GeneralGeneral PsychologyMental Health
Publisher: Abrafp International Press
Published: Nov 17 2025
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Freud: The Definitive Biography offers a powerful and meticulously crafted portrait of the man who transformed our understanding of the human mind. Moving beyond clichés and academic simplifications, this work traces Sigmund Freud's intellectual journey from the cafés of fin-de-siècle Vienna to the creation of one of the most influential theories of the twentieth century.
Drawing on historical documents, clinical notes, letters, and the major psychoanalytic texts, the book unfolds Freud's life in its full complexity: his early struggles, his scientific ambitions, his controversial discoveries, and the personal conflicts that shaped both the man and his work. Each chapter combines rigorous scholarship with narrative clarity, making this biography accessible to new readers while offering depth and precision for specialists.
More than a chronological account, this book explores the emotional, cultural, and philosophical forces that molded Freud's thought. It illuminates the origins of concepts such as the unconscious, repression, the Oedipus complex, and the symbolic life of dreams, showing how these ideas emerged not only from clinical practice but also from the drama of Freud's own lived experience.
This is a definitive, engaging, and human portrait of Freud-neither idolized nor reduced-presenting him as a thinker who dared to look into the darkest corners of the psyche and, in doing so, changed the world.
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