Vox Tablet

This is a sponsored podcast on behalf of Yale University Press and their Jewish Lives series. Sigmund Freud nearly boasted of the fact that he was ignorant of “everything that concerned Judaism.” He also held a deep mistrust of biography—so much so that the father of psychoanalysis burned his papers in order to try to thwart would-be future biographers. So you can see why Adam Phillips may have been daunted by the suggestion that he write a biography of Freud for Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series. Nevertheless, he decided to have a go at it. A psychoanalyst, the editor of the Penguin Modern Classic translations of Freud published in...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.