The Passions of the Mind: A Novel of Sigmund Freud by Stone, Irving (1971) Hardcover

In the 1880's ,Vienna was the glamor capital of Europe, and it was in that gay and brilliant city that Sigmund Freud began his long struggle to free men everywhere from the blindfolds and chains of their unknown natures. The Passions of the Mind is the story of that extraordinary man- a story upon which Irving Stone has lavished his talents as a biographical novelist and five years of tireless research and writing. Sigmund Freud was one of Vienna's most distinguished neurologists. He gave up a life of respectability and affluence to become a daring researcher of uncharted seas in an effort to change forever man's understanding of himself his motivations and his world. He was a pioneer explorer and of the dark and fearsome frontiers of the sexual nature of man, for which he was made, .... a pariah!