The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
By Ernest Jones
1953
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"In addition to satisfying our natural and proper curiosity a biography of Freud should serve the purpose of aiding our understanding of Freud's science. Psychoanalysis is best comprehended not as a fully formulated system but rather as a developing idea in the mind of its discoverer. It is hard to imagine a better history of the development of Freud's idea or of the mind that conceived it than that which Dr. Jones has given us."—Lionel Trilling, New York Times Book Review, 10/11/53
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Ernest Jones
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Alfred Ernest Jones was a neurologist and psychoanalyst, and Sigmund Freud’s official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world where, as President of both the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association in the 1920s and 1930s, he exercised a formative influence in the establishment of its organisations, institutions and publications.
