Conversations with Freud
A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts
by D.M. Thomas
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Pub Date 23 Mar 2020 | Archive Date 2 Apr 2020
Watkins | Watkins Publishing
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Description
Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and transformed the way we think about ourselves today.
Starting with a brilliant foreword from renowned psychologist Edward de Bono, the book is then divided into two parts: a biographical essay that provides a concise overview of Freud's life, achievements, theories and controversies; and a Q&A dialogue based on rigorous research and incorporating Freud's actual spoken or written words whenever possible. D.M. Thomas carefully guides us through Freud's life and theories that would lead to him become the father of psychoanalysis. In frank conversation, full of energy and spiced with cynicism and wit, he'll interpret your wildest fantasies and strangest dreams, and even let you in on a few family secrets.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781786783868 |
PRICE | US$14.95 (USD) |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
This is a short book with an biography of Freud, and then a interview session where Newton answers questions about his life (as if he were alive). The series has been renamed Conversations with ... some well known person and is a good light summary of Freud's life. It would be a good book for an advanced reader in public school.
This short but nevertheless most compelling of books is entitled a fictional dialogue based on biographical fact and imagines a contemporary conversation between Sigmund Freud and Freud expert D. M. Thomas. Before this, there is a brief biography of Freud which enables a reader like me, who has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the founder of psychoanalysis, to gain some much needed background before the question and answer session begins.
There is a surprising amount of ground covered here (for a book that I easily read in one sitting) including some of the basic principles of his theories, his fallout with Jung and the importance of his Jewishness. This is a most absorbing little book and it may get one into further reading about this most influential and controversial of characters.
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