The Death of Sigmund Freud

Mark Edmundson is an established, widely published Freud scholar, who edited Beyond the Pleasure Principle for the Penguin centenary edition of Freud. The hardback of The Death of Sigmund Freud received amazing reviews from all the critics The Death of Sigmund Freud offers a revolutionary assessment of Freud's legacy and is a compelling, thrilling read As read on BBC Radio 4

When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. This book traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London.When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London. Edmundson probes Freud's ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and grapples with the demise of psychoanalysis after Freud's death now that religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.