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Inspired by Sigmund Freuds only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the minds most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and prote;ge;. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier-whipped, mutilated, and strangled....
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©2013.
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In the vibrant, extravagant world of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Minna Bernays is an over-educated lady's companion with a sharp, wry wit. Unwilling to settle and marry, she has spent years working for frivolous, difficult women, stuck in a social limbo, neither servant nor master. When Minna is abruptly fired, she finds herself out on the street and out of options. In 1895, the city is aswirl with avant-garde artists and writers and revolutionary...
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2017.
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"Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz. As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically...
11) Sigmund Freud
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
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c. 2006
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IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, sho in 19th-dentury Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.