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Inspired by Sigmund Freuds only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the minds most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and prote;ge;. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier-whipped, mutilated, and strangled....
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2017.
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"Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically...
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Pub. Date
c. 2006
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, sho in 19th-dentury Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
20) Dreamland
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City of fire trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
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A novel on turn-of-the century New York, portraying its various faces. The cast includes a Jewish seamstress who rebels against her rabbi father to become a union organizer, an Irish-American senator who rules the city with the help of corrupt police, and Freud who gives his views on crass America. By the author of Sometimes You See It Coming.