Bibliograph

Freud's mistress, Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman

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Freud's mistress, Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-357)

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Adult, Brodart

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Freud's mistress

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman

Summary

1895 Vienna: Minna is an overeducated woman with limited options. Fired yet again for speaking her mind, she finds herself out on the street. Out of desperation, Minna turns to her older sister, Martha, for help. But Martha has her own problems—six young children, a host of physical ailments, and an overworked, disinterested husband who happens to be Sigmund Freud. Freud is a struggling professor, all but shunned by his peers for his theories, most of which center around sexual impulses, urges, and perversions. While Martha is repulsed by her husband’s "pornographic" work, Minna is fascinated. Minna is everything Martha is not—intellectually curious, an avid reader, stunning. But while she and Freud embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship, something deeper is brewing beneath the surface, something Minna cannot escape

Target audience

adult

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