Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 28 June 2008
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This work gives an insider's, in-law view of the family Freud, its
foundations, and flaws. The relationship between Esti, daughter of a
wealthy Vienna attorney and her husband Martin Freud is foreshadowed by
the young lovers' fathers. At first meeting Esti, Sigmund told his son
the glamorous woman was "too beautiful" for the clan, meaning her
splendor belied a lifestyle not conducive to the frugal Freud ways. And
Esti's father, on hearing of her love for Martin, expressed regret she
was involved with a man who was "not a financially favorable linkage,"
and that his family was not respectable since patriarch Sigmund was
"just another psychiatrist, and one who writes pornography books at
that." Thus begins the ill-fated relationship that would rock two
families and a generation of children to come. Sophie weaves into the
text letters she inherited, including letters from Martin while he was
a prisoner of war, and excerpts from her own diary, kept as an
adolescent. The resulting mosaic will fascinate--and perhaps
disturb--readers interested in Freud and psychoanalysis, as well as
those intrigued by relationships and family.
Gale Publishing | ISBN 0415229294 | 2002 | PDF | 238 pages
Timothy Clark is a specialist in Romantic and post-Romantic poetics , based at Durham University .Many critics consider Martin Heidegger the most influential , elusive and controversial figure in modern poetics and criticism . However , few students of literature have been directed to his writings on art and poetry. This volume offers such students a bridge to this crucial work. Timothy Clark immerses readers in a new way of thinking, approaching Heideggerian ideas on the limits of 'theory' and of Western thought, his history of being, the origin and death of art, language, literature and poetics . He also covers the controversy of Heidegger 's Nazi involvement .
Nestled on a bend of the River Rhine, in the South West corner of Germany, is the City of Worms. It’s one of the oldest cities in central Europe; it still has its early city walls, its 11th century Romanesque cathedral and a 500-year-old printing industry, but in its centre is a statue of the monk, heretic and founder of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther. In 1521 Luther came to Worms to explain his attacks on the Catholic Church to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, and the gathered dignitaries of the German lands. What happened at that meeting, called the Diet of Worms, tore countries apart, set nation against nation, felled kings and plunged dynasties into suicidal bouts of infighting.
But why did Martin Luther risk execution to go to the Diet, what was at stake for the big players of medieval Europe and how did events at the Diet of Worms irrevocably change the history of Europe?
