The death of Sigmund Freud : fascism, psychoanalysis and the rise of fundamentalism / Mark Edmundson.

By:

Edmundson, Mark, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.Description: 276 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780747586074 (hbk.) :
0747586071 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

150.1952092 EDM

LOC classification:

BF109.F74

Summary: A dramatic narrative of Freud's last two years, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London. Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives. He probes Freud's ideas about secular death, and also about the rise of fascism and fundamentalism at a time when religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection	150.1952092 EDM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		203268

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.

A dramatic narrative of Freud's last two years, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London. Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives. He probes Freud's ideas about secular death, and also about the rise of fascism and fundamentalism at a time when religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.