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