The Gods of Freud
Janine Burke
- A
- stunning
- and
- surprising
- re-evaluation
- of
- Freud’s
- life
- and
- legacy
- told
- through
- his
- extraordinary
- art
- collection.Janine
- Burke,
- award-winning
- author
- and
- art
- historian,
- reveals
- an
- intriguing
- new
- perspective
- on
- sigmund
- Freud
- -
- as
- an
- obsessive
- artcollector;
- a
- passionate
- and
- reckless
- man
- intent
- on
- surrounding
- himself
- with
- beautiful
- objects.Sigmund
- Freud's
- collection
- of
- Egyptian,
- Greek
- and
- Roman
- antiquities
- must
- be
- one
- of
- the
- world's
- best-kept
- secrets.
- Over
- a
- 40-year
- period
- he
- amassed
- an
- extraordinary
- array
- of
- nearly
- three
- thousand
- statues,
- vases,
- reliefs,
- busts,fragments
- of
- papyrus,
- rings,
- precious
- stones
- and
- prints.
- For
- Freud,
- psychoanalysis
- and
- his
- art
- collection
- developed
- together
- in
- a
- symbiotic
- relationship,
- each
- informing
- and
- enriching
- the
- other.To
- create
- a
- portrait
- of
- Freud
- the
- art
- collector,
- Janine
- Burke
- builds
- a
- vibrant,
- richly
- detailed
- and
- intimate
- image
- of
- his
- life
- and
- times,
- set
- against
- the
- glittering,
- decadent
- background
- of
- fin-de-siècle
- Vienna
- where
- an
- artistic
- flowering
- took
- place
- in
- painting,
- theatre,
- writing
- and architecture.
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