We have had Frank Sulloway making out that the cherished picture Freud had of himself as the victim, first of neglect, then of scorn and hostility, is grossly exaggerated, and that it owes its circulation to a well-orchestrated, well-entrenched We have had Paul Roazen retelling the conflicts and dissensions within the psychoanalytic movement, and attributing much of the responsibility for their often tragic endings to Freud's "restricted humanity." It is a work of hagiography.ĭedicated to the "true daughter of an immortal sire," it reveals to its readers everything about Freud that Anna Freud thought fit to print.Īfter Ernest Jones came the revisionists. Jones himself was an emotional if somewhat authoritarian figure -"volubleĪnd provocative" is how Peter Gay describes him - but little of his febrility shows through in this great labor of his last years, which belongs unmistakably to the tradition of the Victorian three-volume biography. N 1957 the last volume of Ernest Jones's monumental life of Freud appeared.
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