![]() ![]() One is their age- Kramer is fully a quarter of a century younger the one was born in 1923, the other in 1948. ![]() There are two interesting differences between the biographers. ![]() And, despite admiring Freud's prose style, Kramer writes that Freud "had altered fact to fit theory, conducted therapies in ways that bore scant relationship to his precepts, and claimed success in treatments that had failed." p. ("We may feel saddened and depleted- I do- at the loss of a hero." (p.159). In Peter Kramer's "Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind", he reluctantly- as the subtitle gives testimony- offers evidence of Freud's mistakes and mis-doings, and reluctantly offers his conclusion at the very end that the hero was not so much a hero at-all. In this book, Gay is aware of criticism to Freud, but resists it. This is going to be more of a comparative analysis, than a straight review, since I have at least one independent source of information on the subject, which shall inform my critique. A review of "Sigmund Freud: A Life for Our Time" by Peter Gay ![]()
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