peter gay. Frd: A Life for Our Time. New York: W. W. Norton. 1988. Pp. xx, 810. $25.00 | The Amerin Historil Review | Oxford Amic

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Gay's Frd is que the sphx. Note: Gay fends here psychoanalysis as a legimate technique for the historil disciple. Non-fictnAuthor 14 books101 followersMarch 28, 2020Peter Gay's bgraphy of Sigmund Frd--Frd: A Life for Our Time--is a eply rearched and far-reachg examatn of one of the most provotive and fluential thkers of the morn era.

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. Overall, of urse, Gay is sympathetic to what we today would ll Frdianism, but specifilly as emerged when emerged, viewed historilly, not the analyst and promoter of psychoanalysis is prented as tough md, realistic, not always succsful keepg orr the hoe, and a person who om time to time anoted the wrong succsor, notably Carl Jung.

183 reviews33 followersAugt 23, 2007Disagree wh two of the reviewers below: Gay is not unbearly biased favor of Frd, book is not too much for sual dabblers the subject. Mi-a p în mâi un mod a gândi & a analiza re, atunci, a ven o separabilă parte d ceea ce sunt î 8 books68 followersFebary 6, 2017While Ernt Jon' three-volume haggraphy was syphantic and fensive, wh his own 1988 effort Peter Gay took rrière-lickg to a whole new level—jt se you didn't thk possible after ploughg through his precsor. One gets the image of Gay sighg wh wistful admiratn for the Master; his prose is furiatg, fantile, and gag-ducg.

Yet the book is stctive, for, while Gay thought Frdian psychoanalysis a science, his haggraphy reveals the extent to which Frd's psdoscientific theori were tobgraphil orig and / or credibly subjective. For this reason, Gay avoids gettg zero 1 book10 followersApril 18, 2018Gay's doorstopper is an unexpectedly accsible acunt of Frd's life and works, which narrative progrsn is ftly blend wh thematic discsns of Frd's ias and publitns as well as broar polil and cultural page 150 – ls than a quarter of the way to the ma text – Frd is already his mid-forti, but there's only so much that n be fted to a one-volume work and Gay's extensive treatment of the send half of his subject's life reflects the creasgly broad nature of Frd's output and activi once he had tablished himself, as well as his signifince as a public figure and even celebry. However, Gay's acunt of Frd's early years is engagg and rmative: so many threads and nnectns twentieth-century culture have some personal, faial or tellectual lk back to the apartment at Berggasse 19, but is important not to overlook the neteenth-century i om which Frd turn emerged.