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Dr. Breger’s fine new book ‘A Dream of Undying Fame: Freud’s Betrayal of his Mentor and Discovery of Psychoanalysis’ is a wonderful compliment to his earlier definitive biography on Freud, ‘Darkness in the Midst of Vision’. Within a brief 100 plus pages, amazingly, and with a deliciously engaging and suspenseful style, Dr. Breger provides us with a step-by-step prelude to some of the most important discoveries in the history of Psychoanalysis.
Breuer and Freud were onto something: “Hysterical patients suffer mainly from reminiscences,” they wrote. Theories of the time emphasized that you could release the tension or energy left over from past pain, or that you could even wipe away the pain by altering memories through hypnosis. Does something still trouble you? Under hypnosis, we can change your memories!
The book is a stunning accomplishment, particularly given its short format. If you have never read about Freud before, this is the perfect work of introduction to him. If you know Freud and his works well, you will come away from this book with new insights into the nature and scope of both his genius and his limitations.