Books, Arts & Manners: Psychoanalysis in Exile

Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes, edited by Edward Timms and Naomi Segal (Yale, 320 pp., $32.50)

Beginning with Freud himself, psychoanalysts have tended to be excellent writers, gifted with a terrifying directness. Freud in Exile—an anthology of scholarly essays loosely connected with Freud’s last years in London, and with his followers’ lives after fleeing Nazi Germany—contains material for about six non-fiction bestsellers and a couple of historical novels. Those who find it tedious to get history from novels and almost impossible to get non-fiction from bestsellers should, from this point of view, be delighted with it.

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Freud in Exile: Psychoanalysis and Its Vicissitudes, edited by Edward Timms and Naomi Segal (Yale, 320 pp., $32.50)

Beginning with Freud himself, psychoanalysts have tended to be excellent writers, gifted with a terrifying directness. Freud in Exile—an anthology of scholarly essays loosely connected with Freud’s last years in London, and with his followers’ lives after fleeing Nazi Germany—contains material for about six non-fiction bestsellers and a couple of historical novels. Those who find it tedious to get history from novels and almost impossible to get non-fiction from bestsellers should, from this point of view, be delighted with it.