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...Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Volume I, by Ernest Jones. Young Dr. Freud, fascinatingly analyzed by his leading British disciple (TIME...
...facts of unconscious life, informal, easygoing Bob Young found it surprisingly easy to get his clerical couples talking about their aggressions, repressions and sexual problems. Even a little theology was kicked around-with some of the inanity that is often a byproduct of the mixture of Scripture and Freud. One meeting considered the question of whether Jesus Christ was a masochist. (Yes, said Bob Young: he denied himself marriage and made his life one long bid for suffering. No, said the ministers: men crucified him because they were not yet ready for the Son of God and his principle...
...Biographer Jones lives up to his promise not to present "an idealized portrait" of his late master. The portrait he paints is of a harsh, opinionated young man, tormented for nearly 35 years by poverty but prepared promptly to sacrifice a hard-earned medical reputation to an audacious theory. Freud was quarrelsome, prone to tantrums when crossed. Once, opposed in an argument by Carl Jung, he fell on the floor in a dead faint. Far from being a "calm scientist," he deliberately sought out the extremes of love and hate. Observing that all the men he respected had "a characteristic...
...would be too much to expect Dr. Jones to be as objective about Freud's beliefs as he is about Freud's personality. To Jones, psychoanalysis is not a theory which may sooner or later be displaced by some other theory; it is an eternal truth which may grow bigger and better but will never be disproved...
Biographer Jones believes that Freud was the first man ever to "know himself," the first to examine depths whose "inner resistance" had baffled all others "from Solon to Montaigne, from Juvenal to Schopenhauer." But stout partisanship in no way dulls the brilliance of Jones's biography, any more than it did in the case of James Boswell's celebrated admiration for Samuel Johnson...