Volume 38, Number 1 & 2 · January 17, 1991
The Boy Friend
By Phyllis Grosskurth
The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871–1881
edited by Walter Boehlich, translated by A.J. Pomerans
Harvard University Press, 197 pp., $30.00
It is difficult for us to believe that Freud was ever a young man. We are so conditioned by the photographs of the patriarchal bearded figure with his eyes gazing solemnly and disapprovingly at the world and by his letters which so frequently predict an imminent death that we tend to think of him as eternally old.
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