Freud: The Man and the Cause

Abstract

Readers interested in the life of Freud owe a debt of gratitude to Ronald W. Clark, the author of Freud: The Man and the Cause . He has presented a fair account that is not burdened by ideological bias. While appreciative of Freud's achievement, he has remained free of idealizing tendencies and has indicated where the data for understanding are incomplete. Although the book is written for popular consumption, those who are scholars of Freud's life will be enriched by the contents as well. New material, published in neither Jones' biography nor in Schur's account, appears in print for the first time. Letters written by Freud to an adolescent friend, Eduard Silberstein, which are now in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and in Colchester, England, as well as the correspondence between Freud and a nephew, Samuel Freud of Manchester, England, add further dimensions to Freud's personality. There is an unknown