![]() There are some moments of sharp insight when Edmundson veers away from the biographical and delves into his own critical ideas, but these would have been better served in an article rather than incorporated into a narrative of danger, escape, illness and death. Edmundson adds nothing in recounting the details of Freud’s life, and those facts are repeated over and over. But the earlier parts of the volume are thin. In fact, Edmundson’s aim seems even grander: to revive Freud’s legacy as a sage of human nature in an intellectual climate that has moved beyond many of his ideas. ![]() to be entitled The Death of Sigmund Freud about Freuds escape from Vienna in 1938. Contributing editor to Harpers, Raritan, and Civilization. Participants: Cathy Caruth, Mark Edmundson, Paul Fry (moderator). (published in 1939), arguing for Freud’s profound insights into the rise of a totalitarian, paternalistic leader like Hitler. The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days, Bloomsbury (New York, NY), 2007. The crux of the book comes at its very end, where Edmundson, a contributing editor at Harper’s Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freuds oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freuds life, during which he was rescued and. He begins in 1938 Vienna on the eve of Hitler’s invasion and ends less than two years later, when Freud died in London. ![]() Expanding on his 2006 New York Times MagazineĪrticle, “Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge,” Edmundson develops his thesis about the lure of powerful, authoritarian leaders. ![]()
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