Review of Louis Breger’s new life of Freud. “Outside the psychoanalytic community, there is widespread indifference to
Freud among psychiatrists and therapists in general. His dream theories
have unravelled, his views on women have decayed, his Oedipus theory is
seen as fantasy, his long-drawn-out psychotherapy has had its day. What
can be salvaged and recycled? Can a satisfactory new Freud arise from the
ashes of the old?” Spectator
