The Death of Sigmund Freud

When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city´s 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud´s oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud´s life, during which he was rescued and brought to London. Edmundson probes Freud´s ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and grapples with the demise of psychoanalysis after Freud´s death now that religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.