Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

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<p> <i>One genius takes on another.</i> </p><p> Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, <b>Sigmund Freud</b> is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. Ralph Steadman wields his shrewd wit and fierce pen to highlight the movements of Freud's life and career, from early childhood to the moment of death. </p><p> But there's a twist. Through a masterful interplay of text and illustration, each scene is transformed into a <i>"joking situation,"</i> which the artist hilariously examines according to the techniques discussed by Freud himself in his 1905 book, <i>Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious</i>. The result is a fantastic Freudian festival of visual and verbal puns, unexpected insights, and sheer intellectual enjoyment. </p><p> Originally published in hardcover in 1979, released in paperback in 1997, and now back in print, <b>Sigmund Freud</b> is superbly illustrated with more than 50 major drawings and 25 vignettes. It remains one of the most original illustrated books of our times and a Ralph Steadman classic. </p>