Book review - Freud: In His Time And Ours

The father of psychoanalysis had a profound influence on literature and art as well probing the darkest recesses of the mind, writes JP O’Malley.

A BIOGRAPHY concerning the life and times of Sigmund Freud comes with just a small dose of irony. For Freud believed that biography itself was a form of repression and a mechanism of defence.

Without Freud, the cultural artistic and literary landscape we take for granted today — such as the modernist movement in literature, or the surrealist movement in painting — would have looked very different.