From one of the world\u2019s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud\u2014Freud up until the age of fifty\u2014that incorporates all of Freud\u2019s many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls \u201cBritain\u2019s foremost psychoanalytical writer,\u201d emphasizes the largely and inevitably undocumented story of Freud\u2019s earliest years as the oldest\u2014and favored\u2014son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant\u2014increasingly, of course, everybody\u2019s status in the modern world. Psychoanalysis was also Freud\u2019s way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So as well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries, Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have become if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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