In the long argument over whether Sigmund Freud was prophet or fraud, the French historian Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a third possibility: that he was simply, irreducibly human. Drawing on archives sealed for decades, her reissued biography situates Freud not as a monument to be defended or toppled, but as a figure whose contradictions—between revolution and tradition, between science and myth—mirror the unresolved tensions at the heart of modern thought itself. To understand Freud, Roudinesco suggests, is to understand something about the price and shape of intellectual ambition.
Roudinesco reveals Freud's contradictions: ambitious liberal, political conservative
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