Sigmund Freud — Gerald Levin (Twayne’s World Authors Series, 1975)

A study that takes Freud seriously as a writer, not merely as the founder of psychoanalysis. That is what sets this volume apart, published in Twayne’s World Authors Series — the respected American collection devoted to major figures of world literature.

Gerald Levin examines Freud’s life, work and theories through his writings, focusing on the sense of life that guided his thinking as a scientist and shaped his literary style. It’s an approach that casts familiar texts in a different light: The Interpretation of Dreams, Totem and Taboo and Civilization and Its Discontents become objects of literary analysis as much as vehicles of theory.

True to the series formula, the book combines a chronology, a biography, a comprehensive critical analysis and an annotated bibliography, written in clear, jargon-free prose accessible to students and general readers alike.

Hardcover with gilt-decorated boards. Published by Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1975.

For readers interested in psychoanalysis, intellectual history, literary criticism, and Freud’s work as writing.