Jerrold Seigel; peter gay. Frd: A Life for Our Time. New York: W. W. Norton. 1988. Pp. xx, 810. $25.00, The Amerin Historil Review, Volume 95, Issue 2, 1
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Gay skilfully navigat through Frd’s vast lerary talogue, providg both the personal (i. Do an pecially nice job weavg Frd’s personal life to the narrative; though, mt be reerated: Gay spends the bulk of his bgraphy wrtlg wh the nuanc of Frd’s personal life as relat to his theori.
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Gay weav three strands together wh great skill: Frd the man, hband, father and iend; Frd the tellectual origator of a prehensive theory of how the human md works (cludg s ponent forc); and Frd the lear of a profsnal movement, psychoanalysis, as s preement practner and fatigable fenr of central psychoanalytic prcipl and the man across as a fascatg pose of passns, quirks, loyalti, and, the ma, strengths. Gay pots out strengths and weakns, both as they were apparent right away or beme apparent over time, his theori.