The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
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A dramatic narrative of Freud’s last two years, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London, and the rise of Adolf Hitler
’As tense as any thriller ... Edmundson traces some very interesting links between Freud and Hitler’ Mail on Sunday
’Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud’s flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting’ Guardian
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city’s 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation.
Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud’s oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud’s life, during which he was rescued and brought to London.
Edmundson probes Freud’s ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and grapples with the demise of psychoanalysis after Freud’s death now that religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.
A dramatic narrative of Freud’s last two years, when he fled Nazi-occupied Vienna for London, and the rise of Adolf Hitler
Mark Edmundson is an established, widely published Freud scholar, who edited Beyond the Pleasure Principle for the Penguin centenary edition of Freud.
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The Death of Sigmund Freud offers a revolutionary assessment of Freud’s legacy and is a compelling, thrilling read
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’As tense as any thriller ... Edmundson traces some very interesting links between Freud and Hitler’
’This book, readable and thrilling, should, I need hardly add, be read’
’By tracing the intersecting stories of Freud and Hitler in the days before World War II, Edmundson sheds a fresh light on the allure of fundamentalist politics and the threat it poses to the values of civilization ... a bracing, brilliant, and urgent book’
’Edmundson deftly entwines the gripping story of the dying Freud’s flight to England after the Anschluss in 1938 with a persuasive case for his standing as a political thinker ... riveting’
- Title: The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
- Author: Mark Edmundson
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408820667, 9780747592983, 0747592985, 1408820668
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408820667
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:44:02Z
Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prize-winning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has also written for such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.