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A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind.

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Absolute Classic.......2007-01-31

Best compendium of Freud's work by far. And with intelligent commentary by Gay. Yes, some of Siggy's turgid prose is hard going but, it is worth the investment in time and effort. Read it with an open mind and you will see how timeless Freud's message is...and Gay does not sink into sycophancy, as many others did.

Freud Was An Innovator Before His Time..........2006-06-03

May 6 was the 150th birth anniversary of Sigmung Freud; he died in London in 1939. His theories have been changed along the way by other psychologists, but they remain the basis for therapy. He believed that past conflicts cause current emotional problems, the trauma of being born was actually at the root of neurotic anxiety, and that childhood experiences are the crucible of character. He delved into the science of recollection and reflection. Some of his beliefs have been tossed aside as so much feminist bunk, but had he still been alive, he would have agreed that history will never end because it is made by human beings.

Someone acting rashly (out of character) is said to be "frontal" referring to the part of the brain involved in impulse control. They react to slurs in a violent manner to protect their self-integrity. One must confront the parts of himself which are painful and shameful and difficult to face. A philosopher at the University of Chicago identifies a "core idea" on which Freud's reputation must rest, that human life is "essentially conflicted." Today, we have brain-imaging technology which can prove or disprove his mind-boggling ideas.

A person of character always is truthful. Dishonesty by omission (withhold the truth) or commission (telling an untruth) is a byproduct of the change system. Don't tell people what they want to know; that is misleading. When you fail to tell the truth, minor issues escalate into major ones. You usually become angry at perceived psychological threats. Someone threatens your self-esteem, your reputation, your peace of mind, or your sense of well-being, and you explode in anger. There are biological reasons for the way we act or react to this threat to our self-preservation. Empathy helps us to contain and expand our own sense of self-esteem. You have to confront the parts of yourself (your mind) that are painful, shameful, and difficult to face.

Eric Kandel wrote a book about the memory for which he won the Nobel Prize. The future of neuroscience leads us to the biology of the mind. This science is called phrenology -- a science of the mind. Why we act and think the way we do. How we interpret danger from slander. Too much sadness become depression, too much gladness becomes mania, too much fear becomes panic, and too much anger becomes rage. Can virtue be taught? In today's society we constantly search for the pursuit of happiness. One thing to question is "What makes a problem moral."

It's too bad Freud isn't around to see how immoral our society has become with deceit and even by the way they dress in public. Many more humans have psychological problems these days than in the '30s, which are going unresolved. His ideas probably would be considered obsolete, but they have been expanded to include behaviorism, humanistic, mythological, cognitive behavioral therapy, even self psychology. With his sometimes wrong ideas, we can pick and choose which field is best for us to overcome our hurts (caused by others, not being born or ignored as children) and understand that we are not alone.

Excellent Work.......2004-09-27

Disagree with two of the reviewers below: Gay is not unbearly biased in favor of Freud, book is not too much for casual dabblers in the subject.

First, one could hardly expect a six hundred page biography of Freud to be authored by someone who hates the man. Important to be realistic about who writes books in the first place.

Second, Freud was a prolific writer, and the book doesn't shy away from in depth analysis, so really it's like two three hundred page books. Now, if that's too much Freud for you, you're probably not that interested in the first place.

I like to read biographies of thinkers who left behind copious amount of published work. That way, it's easier to get a sense of what you want to read (if anything) by the author.

Because much of Freud's work revolves around family life, his family life is more then usually interesting. It's impossible to appreciate the originality of Freud's thought without having a firm context for HIS everyday life.

This book provides a balanced reading of Freud's controverial life. I found the bad to be included as much as the good. Freud's influence on the 20th century has been so profound that even if you completely disagree with the man (over, say, his attitude towards women), it is still rewarding to learn about his thought.

Very complete biography.......2004-02-23

This biography on Sigmund Freud proves to be a total integration of all aspects of Freud's life. Everything from his psycho-analysis works to his family life, Jewish background to the political climate that surrounded his life were all integrated in this book in one massive volume. The book proves to be well written and relatively objective in outlook as the author maintain an even kneel toward his subject. I found the book to be quite informative and full of interesting insights on Freud's motives and actions.

It seem to the author that Freud's life really didn't start until he published his famous book, Interpretation of Dreams. Roughly a hundred pages covered his life prior to that and rest of 550 pages covered his life after that. There is another 150 pages of source materials and index just to let you know how thick this book can be. (Hardback)

It should be warned that due to an overwhelming amount of information provided in this book, most of the first time readers into Freud's life would probably suffer from information overload. Many of the technical terms used in Freud's work were not meant for casual readers. This biography is quite complex in nature and content. I would recommend reading couple of shorter and simpler biographies on Freud before moving up to this book. If not, you will just slog through this book like being stuck in a giant swamp of information.

Excellent writing.......2003-12-20

Peter Gay has given us yet another intelligent and stimulating work. The book was highly praised in a review and although I would have never thought it possible, the writing transported one back to the Europe of the early 20th century. In many aspects Freud was a typical bourgeois Jew - intellectual, deeply opinionated, haughty, wealthy, well-mannered and hard-working.

His group-breaking advances are explained in detail as well as his ideas on several modern practices he patented - therapy, the id, ego and superego, guilt, eroticism. It was the latter on which he rested his claim for in his exploration of sexuality he thinks he has discovered the core of each of us. We are, he states, sexual creatures and all our decisions and thought processes are geared around that fact.

The triune history - Freud's, psychotherapy, Europe - combine to form a dazzling work in which the author shows a real empathy for his subject. One of the best around.

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very well-done

Freud still makes a difference

Freud: A Life for Our Time
Peter Gay
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth by reissuing Peter Gay's best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction.

A New York Times bestseller, this is the most highly regarded biography of Freud ever written. To read this book is to enter the world of Sigmund Freud as never before: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long fruitful and embattled life. Drawing on a vast store of unpublished documents, including hundreds of hitherto unknown or inaccessible letters, Peter Gay deals frankly with the controversies that have long swirled around Freud's impassioned friendships, his love life, and his theoretical innovations which, as Freud himself put it, agitated the sleep of mankind. 72 illustrations.

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very well-done.......2007-05-12

This book describes Freud`s life with deep insight, and you can review the European history at around late 19th century to the beginning of 20th century through Freud's life. Very well done.

Freud still makes a difference.......2006-10-29

If you have minimal knowledge about the father of psychoanlaysis, or if you hold strong opinions about the "Prof" as his students and colleagues referred to him deferentially and affectionally, this work by Peter Gay will highlight the peaks of Freud's dazzling insights, and provide plenty of background for his all too human failings. Freud is presented as a man struggling with issues of family, career, and the inevitablity of death. Gay is able to condense and summarize key Freudian concepts and place them in the context of the life and cultural time of the father of psychoanalysis. For students of psychology as well as observers of our current cultural and political delusions, Gay neatly captures the details as well as the broad scope of Freud's shadow on the 20th Century and beyond.

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Freud: A Life for Our Times
Peter Gay
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Freud: A Life For Our Time Part 1 Of 2
Peter Gay
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Part One Of Two Parts

Enter the world of Sigmund Freud: his family, his city, his professional struggles, his long, fruitful and embattled life. We see him at work in times of declining liberalism, devastating war, uneasy peace, the rise of Hitler and the fall of Austria. We watch him devising and revising his epoch-making theories, struggling toward his discoveries, quarreling with his disciples.

But the book is more than biography. The author's explanations of Freud's theories of dreams and sexuality, development and neurosis, love and hate are a brilliant review of pschoanalytic thought.

Freud emerges whole--student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, Jew, victim and victor. As W.H. Auden said of him, he is "...no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion."

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Freud: A Life For Our Time Part 2 Of 2
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Part Two Of Two Parts

But the book is more than biography. The author's explanations of Freud's theories of dreams and sexuality, development and neurosis, love and hate are a brilliant review of pschoanalytic thought.

Freud emerges whole--student, physician, psychologist, lover, husband, father, Jew, victim and victor. As W.H. Auden said of him, he is "...no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion."

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Freud: a Life for our Time
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In the Devil's Garden: Think beyond the apple!

TMI completely unnecessary

It's a fun book and very informative.

Shoddy scholarship, hearsay, and conjecture.

Interesting, but some spurious claims

In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Stewart Lee Allen
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Lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods offers a high-spirited look at the way foods over time have been forbidden, even criminalized, for their "evil" effects. Food has often been, shockingly, morally weighted, from the tomato, originally called the love apple and thought to excite lust; to the potato, whose popularity in Ireland led British Protestants to associate it with sloth; to foods like corn or bread whose use was once believed to delineate "lowness," thus inflaming class pride. Allen's approach to this incredible history also includes tales of personal journeys to, for example, a Mount Athos monastery, where a monk reveals the sign of Satan in an apple, and to San Francisco to investigate dog eating. If his history is sometimes too glancing and facetious, even beyond the sensible need to entertain, it is always fascinating.

The book also features "forbidden" menus--such as the one devoted to gluttony that includes an entire steer stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a chicken, and served with sausages--and quite doable and delicious recipes, such as a dynamite hot and sweet banana ketchup and Lo Han Jai, a mushroom-replete vegetarian feast. But the real focus is on the human response to a primal pleasure--eating--and the way people have sought to control it, in every society and every culture, through prohibition. It's quite a tale. --Arthur Boehm

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Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world.

From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, there is often an astonishing tale to tell. Among the foods thought to encourage Lust, the love apple (now known as the tomato) was thought to possess demonic spirits until the nineteenth century. The Gluttony “course” invites the reader to an ancient Roman dinner party where nearly every dish served—from poppy-crusted rodents to “Trojan Pork”—was considered a crime against the state. While the vice known as Sloth introduces the sad story of “The Lazy Root” (the potato), whose popularity in Ireland led British moralists to claim that the Great Famine was God’s way of punishing the Irish for eating a food that bred degeneracy and idleness.

Filled with incredible food history and the author’s travels to many of these exotic locales, In the Devil’s Garden also features recipes like the matzo-ball stews outlawed by the Spanish Inquisition and the forbidden “chocolate champagnes” of the Aztecs. This is truly a delectable book that will be consumed by food lovers, culinary historians, amateur anthropologists, and armchair travelers alike. Bon appétit!

Customer Reviews:

In the Devil's Garden: Think beyond the apple!.......2007-01-27

Sample each of the seven deadly sins while exploring food taboos through history. Complete menus for Lust, Gluttony, Pride, Sloth, Greed, Blasphemy and Anger.

It may well be true that we are what we eat, but what we don't eat and why we don't eat it is fascinating.

Bring your own sense of humour - and salt to taste.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

TMI completely unnecessary.......2007-01-12

In the introduction is a vivid description of a baby urinating upon its father. NOT what I would want to see in a book about food. Absolutely revolting! That, coupled with the fact that the author couldn't be bothered to back up his often-incorrect information (to such an extreme degree that this book should be classified as fiction) makes this one worth skipping.

If you do read this book, you may want to check the "facts" against other sources before relating any stories to other people, lest they make you look like a fool when you're proven wrong. I don't believe that this book will truly enrich someone's knowledge of food.

It's a fun book and very informative........2006-08-14

I really enjoyed this book. I learned a lot of history. He breaks it down into the seven deadly sins. How the apple became the "forbidden fruit" in the Bible. Why to even this day we look down at corn (think about how it's in junk food). Why some foods are shunned over the years for class reasons (for example white bread over dark bread in in 17th and 18th century France.

I highly recommend reading this book.

Shoddy scholarship, hearsay, and conjecture........2005-09-25

It's an entertaining book, it's a pity that the author has appearently done his research at 'Something Somebody Said Once University'.

The number of history blunders, plain falsehoods, and misinterpetations is staggering. It's a shame, because Mr. Allen has a great style. Not reccomended at all, I'm afraid.

Interesting, but some spurious claims.......2005-07-27

Be ready to take a lot of salt with this book! There is a lot of hooey involved, as well as factual history. Jusy don't be so politically correct-Berkeley-influenced as to believe that deviled eggs were named because they became unhealthy. It's the spices and flavors, you know.

In the Devil's Garden. A Sinful History of Forbidden Food

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In the Devil's Garden. A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Stewart Lee Allen
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This book was created to help us understand the needs of the dog, to give an idea of their relationship with us. Hopefully owners will better understand their dogs. That they have their own language and it is up to us to learn all we can about them. This animal has been with humans for thousands of years, in good and bad times. Responsible ownership is taking responsibility for our actions and to be accountable. Enjoy your dog. Be firm, fair, consistent! Learn to become a leader and trainer. Your payment will be your enjoyment.

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Learn how to make firearm silencers from common items found around the house. George Hayduke, the Master of Revenge, will show you how! Enter the world of muffled mayhem with these simple, effective and legal silencer designs. For information purposes only.

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A complete waste of your time and money.......2007-09-28

It's hard to imagine how this book got in to print: poorly written, poorly researched, poorly presented. It fails to provide any insight in to the principles behind suppressor design and manufacture, contains no information about gunsmith practices for mounting a silencer, and has just enough print to escape classification as a picture book.

Save your money and time. Buy anything but a Hayduke book.

Easy and simple........2003-03-06

Hayduke rides again!
The Edward Abbey frictional character has a number of books under this guise, This is one of those little gems of his. However, all the plans are simplistic. And most are for the .22 rifle or pistol. I wanted to see plans with washers and welding, but alas, they where not here. If you sat down and wrote 5 ways to suppress the sound of a gun, it would be in this small book.

A fun book to read, and educational. Please do remember that even the assembly of the parts in preparation to build a suppressor is a federal offense, don't do it without ATF permission (and paying the...tax of course!).

excellent practical advice.......1997-11-19

Practical designs and advice on silencers. The pop bottle model works like a champ and can be built in 15 min..

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For many people, the religion of their childhood was left behind in young adulthood, as if just another childhood fantasy. But with the prospect of marriage and raising children, many begin to feel a need for spiritual grounding in religious ritual and community. Phil Catalfo shows just how some parents have succeeded in finding their spiritual bearings and in involving their children in a spiritual life. He gives concrete examples of people practicing a wide variety of faiths. Some return to the mainstream traditions of their youth while incorporating other traditions such as Vedanta and Native American spiritualism. Others become full-fledged members of such religions as Buddhism, Mahikari, and Neo-paganism. A journalist specializing in spiritual issues, Catalfo covers his topic with knowledge and empathy, and also suggests tips for promoting family spirituality and finding one's own spiritual path.

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The Biographical History of Sir William Blackstone
D. Doublas
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The biographical history of Sir William Blackstone and a catalogue of Sir William Blackstone's works,: With a nomenclature of Westminster-Hall,
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An excellent read that gives good historical perspective........2002-05-10

This is lovely book that gives a personal account of Betty Grebenschikoff and her experiences as a child fleeing Germany during World War II. A good book to read especially in our present day to give understanding to the plight of Jewish families around the world. The author also does book signings and lectures around the country. I have heard her speak and that made the book have even more valuable to me.

Stunning memoir of a Jewish girl and her family during WWII........1998-12-09

I was deeply moved by this life story of Betty Grebenschikoff. She moves through her life rather quickly in 180 pages, from girlhood in Germany to being a grandmother in New Jersey. Her story is told simply, but extremely well with it's details of daily life and the family's travels while fleeing Germany. Throughout the book, you find yourself counting your own blessings in life. The handful of family photos at the end are a bonus.

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Once My Name Was Sara
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