Books: Young Dr. Freud

THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIGMUND FREUD: VOL. I. (428 pp.)—Ernest Jones—Basic Books ($6.75).

The late famed Sigmund Freud was a 28-year-old nobody when he wrote to his fiancee: "I have just carried out one resolution which one group of people . . . will feel acutely . . . my biographers. I have destroyed all my diaries . . . Let the biographers chafe; we won't make it too easy for them. Let each one believe he is right in his 'Conception of the Development of the Hero': even now I enjoy the thought...

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