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By Mark Edmundson. 276 pp. New York, Bloomsbury, 2007. $25.95. ISBN 978-1-58234-537-6.

This book is a contemporary reinterpretation of Sigmund Freud's last years and of his current significance. Although Freud's ideas are increasingly on the margins of contemporary psychiatry, Edmundson's book makes it clear that they continue to have an effect on the broader culture.

Drawing almost exclusively from secondary sources and previously published primary sources, Edmundson covers the period from March 1938 to Freud's death on September 23, 1939. The first part of the book is an extensive reflection on the lives of Freud and of Adolf Hitler in Vienna, in which Edmundson retells the story of the period in Hitler's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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