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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
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Author:
Frank Tallis
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
March 26, 2024
A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist.
What The Reviewers Say
Wonderful.
Reading Mortal Secrets is like waltzing around a crowded ballroom, past quivering gold leaf and sternly curved flowers, while your partner murmurs in your ear very elegant, very precise summaries of primal parricide and the topographical model of the mind. The experience is not just entertaining. It is refreshingly honest.
Convincingly critical and convincingly admiring—among the best of innumerable Freud bios..
Wide-ranging and fascinating.
