num_pages: 672
description: A Life for Our Time is a biography about Freud written by Peter Gay. This is the original publication from 1988. The chapters of the book starts with Foundations 1856-1905 (A Greed for Knowledge, The Theory in the Making, and Psychoanalysis); then comes Elaborations 1902-1915 (Sketch of an Embattled Founder, Psychoanalytic Politics, Therapy and Technique, and Applications and Implications) and ends with Revisions 1915-1939 (Aggressions, Death Against Life, Flickering Lights on Dark Continents, Human Nature at Work, and To Die in Freedom). The Chicago Tribune wrote, “[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud’s life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively.” The ISBN # is 0-393-02517-9. The book contains 810 pages.
language: English
title: Freud: A Life for Our Time
titlecomplete: Freud: A Life for Our Time
characters: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Ernest Jones, Anna Freud, Otto Rank, Karl Abraham, Wilhelm Fliess, Josef Breuer, Alfred Adler, Sándor Ferenczi
genres: Biography, Psychiatry, Philosophy, European History, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Biography Memoir, History, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 1321
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography
publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons