Analysing Freud ; the Penguin Freud Reader Edited by Adam Phillips Penguin Pounds 14.99 . Pounds 11.99 (0870 165 0870)

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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856, just two years after that other great detective, Sherlock Holmes. There is, of course, an essential difference between the two men. One of them was fictional but has the aura of reality; the other was real, but has the aura of fiction.

In many other respects, though, they loom over us in strikingly similar ways.

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Analysing Freud ; the Penguin Freud Reader Edited by Adam Phillips Penguin Pounds 14.99 . Pounds 11.99 (0870 165 0870)

'You know my method,' says Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery. 'It is founded upon the observance of trifles.' This was the foundation of Freud's method, too. In his essay on Lapses slips of the tongue, tunes that stick in the mind, misplaced things he observes that 'an unsuspected wealth of meaning usually lies hidden behind their apparent harmlessness'.

Elsewhere,...

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