Word: freude
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...LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD: VOL. I. (428 pp.)-Ernest Jones-Basic Books...
Discussing Dr. Ernest Jones's biography of Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (see BOOKS), Critic Lionel Trilling, writing in the New York Times this week, expressed a thought for Columbus Day. Said Trilling: "[Freud] lived by the inner light; he saw life under the aspect of personal heroism and believed that virtue consisted in making truth prevail against the resistance of society . . . Such a personality makes but a limited appeal to our increasingly 'other-directed' society with its ideal of blandness and cooperation and its suspiciousness of personal preeminence and self-assertion . . . A few years ago, a hostile biographer...
...late famed Sigmund Freud was a 28-year-old nobody when he wrote to his fiancee: "I have just carried out one resolution which one group of people . . . will feel acutely . . . my biographers. I have destroyed all my diaries . . . Let the biographers chafe; we won't make it too easy for them. Let each one believe he is right in his 'Conception of the Development of the Hero': even now I enjoy the thought of how they will all go astray...
...Biographer Ernest Jones's earnest hope that this "interesting fantasy" may "prove to have been exaggerated," and his hope is justified. When young Freud poked precocious fun at his biographers, he had not so much as glimpsed the theory that was to revolutionize much of 20th century thinking. It had not occurred to young Dr. Freud that 13 years later (1897) he would discover psychoanalysis by psychoanalyzing himself, and that this self-analysis would force him to resurrect memories and facts of greater importance than those he destroyed at 28. Nor could he imagine that a day would come...
Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones is just the right man for the job. For years he was one of Freud's closest friends (TIME, Aug. 10), and the Freud family has turned over to him a trove of unpublished letters and confidential information. The present volume is only the first of a projected three, but it is enough to suggest that the completed work will be a masterpiece of contemporary biography...