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Article: Dr. Freud: A Life.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 7, 1998
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By Paul Ferris Counterpoint. 480 pp. $30.00.
Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo; author, "After the Revolution: Studies in Contemporary American Jewish Imagination"
BY THE MIDDLE of this century, Sigmund Freud had influenced the civilized world's conception of itself in a way that has rarely been granted to individuals other than absolute dictators and high priests. True to his own fascination with the figure of Moses, Freud was a lawgiver whose maps of the unconscious mind spoke with authority about the mysterious part of us once called the soul, but that he taught us to call the psyche. In Freud's hands, ...