Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (Jewish Lives)

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From one of the most world’s foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis

Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud—Freud up until the age of fifty—that contains all of Freud’s many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological remedy that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he used to be himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls “Britain’s foremost psychoanalytical author,” emphasizes the in large part and inevitably undocumented story of Freud’s earliest years as the oldest—and favored—son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented used to be, among many other things, a psychology of the immigrant—more and more, of course, everybody’s status in the brand new world.
 
Psychoanalysis used to be also Freud’s way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So in addition to incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries, Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of the Jews in Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have change into if Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic movement over which he had to preside.

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