Richard Webster (4) (1950–2011)

This book is 30 years old, and written for a situation that is no longer current. The sad thing is that it could easily be updated to match one or more of the current crises in Western - Islamic relations. Nothing has really changed. The deepening divide was foreseen by this author.

An intellectual biography of Sigmund Freud written from a sceptical point of view. The claim of the book is that Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was misled and misleading, bewitched by the simplicity of his own ideas. In doing so it simplifies Freud's ideas and practice to the point of charicature.