"Invaluable to the novice approaching Freud's works for the first time....As an evaluation of Freud's theory, Storr's book is concise and up-to-date....An important addition to any library collection."--Choice
"Storr's brief, elegant, and interesting book coolly surveys what we might term the house of Freud and finds almost everything flawed...yet he does not dispute that the builder of the shaky house was a genius."--D.M. Thomas, The Observer
"A model exercise in synthesis."--The Independent

List of illustrations; 2. Life and character; 3. Exploring the past; 4. Free association, dreams, and transference; 5. Ego, super-ego, and id; 6. Aggression, depression, and paranoia; 7. Jokes and The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life; 8. Art and literature; 9. Culture and religion; 10. Freud as therapist; 11. Psycho-analysis today; 12. The appeal of psycho-analysis; Further reading; Index