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OverviewA chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind and the way we live today. Long coffee menus and celebrity interviews are Viennese inventions. 'Modern' buildings were appearing in Vienna long before they started appearing in New York and the idea of practical modern home design originated in the work of Viennese architect Adolf Loos. The place, however, where one finds the most indelible and profound impression of Viennese influence is inside your head. How we think about ourselves has been largely determined by Vienna's most celebrated resident, Sigmund Freud. In Mortal Secrets, Frank Tallis brilliantly illuminates Sigmund Freud and his times, taking readers into the mind of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of psychoanalysis and opening up Freud's life to embrace the Vienna he lived in and the lives of the people he mingled with from Gustav Klimt to Arnold Sch�nberg, Egon Schiele to Gustav Mahler. Mortal Secrets is a thrilling book about a heady time in one of the world's most beautiful cities and its long shadow that extends through the twentieth century up until the present day. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Frank TallisPublisher: St Martin's Press Imprint: St Martin's Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9781250288950ISBN 10: 1250288959 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 26 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Stunning in its breadth and depth, this is a magisterial treatment of a towering thinker."" - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) ""Convincingly critical and convincingly admiring--among the best of innumerable Freud bios."" - Kirkus (starred review)" Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |