Freud
A Life for Our Time
2 June 2006
Description
A national bestseller
"A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas
"[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune
Reviews
"Intelligent and wholly absorbing.… Judicious, original biography, scrupulously grounded in close readings of [Freud's] work." — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Brilliant.… A dazzling performance.… Gay's ability to integrate into a coherent whole the vast published and unpublished literature on Freud including hundreds of previously unknown or inaccessible letters is awesome.… A work of art." — Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
"Elegant… puts Freud's life into the context of his time while attempting to explain him for readers who cannot escape his shadow. In Gay's hands, the Olympian figure is almost within mortal reach." — Michael Skube, Raleigh News and Observer
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Award, 1988
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 1989
Also By: Peter Gay 
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1965
Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1963
Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the...
An Autobiographical Study
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1963
Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund...
The Ego and the Id
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1962
In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
Totem and Taboo
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1962
Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.