The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

By Ernest Jones

Edited and Abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. From the cover: Here now is Jones's Freud, edited and abridged in a single volume. To accomplish it, the editors have deleted those portions of the original trilogy which dealt principally with the technical as- pects of Freud's work. The result is a new classic for the general reader. Freud's childhood and adolescence; the excitement and trials of his four-year engagement to Martha Bernays, as re- vealed in their love letters; his carly ex- periments with hypnotism and cocaine; the incredible freeing of his creative powers through self-analysis; the slow rise of his reputation and the constant battles against distortion and personal slander; the painful defections of some of his close associates; the years of interna- tional eminence; the onset of the cancer from which he suffered for sixteen years; his seizure by the Gestapo in Nazified Austria; his stoicism in the face of an agonizing death- all this is unfolded ni a book that remains, in the words of The New York Times, "one of the outstanding biographies of the age," and which now emerges as more readable, more affecting, more inspiring than before.

NY. Basic Books. 1957. 565p.