Mark Edmundson

Freud’s Operatic Escape—and Wacky Theories

Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna, arriving in Paris in 1938, after the <i>Anschluss</i>.
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Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna, arriving in Paris in 1938, after the Anschluss.

“Vienna,” the first of the two narrative essays that make up Marc Edmundson’s meditation on the late life and thought of Sigmund Freud, is a tale worthy of a libretto.  read more »