The Secret Artist

A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud

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by Lesley Chamberlain

Seven Stories Press

Due/Published July 2003, 352 pages, paper

ISBN 1583225773

New in paper (S03)

By positing that the father of modern psychiatry was "fundamentally an artist," Chamberlain explores the meaning of Freud's life and work through a new lens. His rigorous examination of the dynamism and structures of the unconscious, she argues, is in itself an important work of art. Drawing on Freud's writing on art and aesthetics, Chamberlain offers biography and critique to recast Freud's legacy.