Freud's Mistress

Freud's Mistress
ISBN-10
0425270025
ISBN-13
9780425270028
Category
Fiction
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Berkley
Authors
Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack

Description

A tale inspired by the affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law depicts the struggles of Minna Bernays, an educated woman uninterested in conventional women's roles who becomes fascinated with her brother-in-law's pioneering theories.

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