Falling for Freud, a review of Freud’s Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox (2006), John Murray, London William A. Frosch 1 Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA 1 Correspondence: E-mail: wafrosc@med.cornell.edu IF THERE WERE a new reality television program about choosing your own biographer, Brenda Maddox would be the clear winner. Since turning her hand to biography, she has produced a series of lucid prize-winning books about remarkable people. Her curiosity is wide-ranging: her subjects have included Norah Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Rosalind Franklin, and Prime Minister "Maggie" (Thatcher). She has now turned her attention to Ernest Jones (1879–1958), neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and biographer of Sigmund Freud. Brenda Maddox has written a biography worthy of Ernest Jones’s most noteworthy achievement: his three-volume biography of Freud. She also makes it clear that Jones spent his life skating on thin moral ice. It happens that Jones was also an accomplished skater: in 1931, Jones published The Elements of Skating , in which he described the "ravishing experience of exultantly skiing the earth." and gave a lesson on "the art of falling." It is posterity’s good luck that he fell for Freud. Jones was a
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Falling for Freud, a review of Freuds Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones by Brenda Maddox (2006), John Murray, London
Frosch, William A.
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Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Apr 1, 2007
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