The Diary of Sigmund Freud

This record reflects both the political upheaval in Europe and the private torment over these years. Freud was slowly dying of cancer. The diary is studded with reports of the continual operations that kept it at bay. It also returns again and again to his daughter Anna who was now indispensable to him as nurse, amanuensis and his chief representative to the psychoanalytical community. Her life and the lives of his family and friends are all documented as they interweave with his own life and work. By supplementing Freud’s telegraphic notes with records of the time, this annotated edition of the diary reveals the background to Freud’s life, and the lives of his family and contemporaries, during the 1930s. New photographs and unpublished letters illuminate the final years of one this century’s greatest thinkers.