A review by rc90041
Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay

5.0

A fantastic, deeply absorbing, erudite, elegant intellectual biography. The bulk of the discussion centers on Freud’s work, and the development of his ideas, with necessary sidenotes about his various feuds and power struggles with disciples and would-be peers. Borders on hagiography at times, but it remains a rich, fabulously researched resource for anyone interested in Freud’s body of work.