@article{787306,
      recid = {787306},
      author = {Roudinesco, Elisabeth, and Porter, Catherine,},
      title = {Freud in his time and ours /},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 580 pages)},
      note = {"First published as Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le  notre"--Title page verso.},
      abstract = {Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern  reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis.  Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography  for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once  sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and  yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours.  Roudinesco traces Freud's life from his upbringing as the  eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian  household to his final days in London, a refugee of the  Nazis' annexation of his homeland. She recreates the milieu  of fin de siecle Vienna in the waning days of the Habsburg  Empire--an era of extraordinary artistic innovation, given  luster by such luminaries as Gustav Klimt, Stefan Zweig,  and Gustav Mahler. In the midst of it all, at the modest  residence of Berggasse 19, Freud pursued his clinical  investigation of nervous disorders, blazing a path into the  unplumbed recesses of human consciousness and desire. Yet  this revolutionary who was overthrowing cherished notions  of human rationality and sexuality was, in his politics and  personal habits, in many ways conservative, Roudinesco  shows. In his chauvinistic attitudes toward women, and in  his stubborn refusal to acknowledge the growing threat of  Hitler until it was nearly too late, even the  analytically-minded Freud had his blind spots. Alert to his  intellectual complexity--the numerous tensions in his  character and thought that remained unresolved--Roudinesco  ultimately views Freud less as a scientific thinker than as  the master interpreter of civilization and culture.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/787306},
}