“Freud 2000” edited by Anthony Elliot is a book about a famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s life and his great ideas. The editor states that Freud was born in a poor Jewish family in 1856.Sigmund Freud’s birthplace was above a blacksmith’s forge in Moravia, as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time. The editor also mentions that Freud as the eldest son in his family, he always received education priority from his parents. Elliot reveals people do not know much about Freud‘s early life due to he destroyed his own paper at least twice in 1885 and in 1907. Freud also refused people wrote a biography about him because he thought anyone who writes a biography is committed to lies, concealments and flattery. Elliot tells the readers that Sigmund Freud found psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century and he was the first person who believed psychoanalysis as a science subject. The editor of this book also indicates that Freud has been describe as an ‘evil geniuses because his theories have been blamed for alienate people from themselves and underming the values of Western civilisation. Elliot claims that Freud had a great influence of psychoanalysis over twentieth century. A campaign launched against psychoanalysis in the 1990s and “Time” magazine ran the discussion about “Is Freud Dead?” in 1993. The editor notes that although there are still intense arguments about Freud’s theory in psychoanalysis field, his works such as Psychotherapy and Id, ego, and super-ego principle are well known by public.


Reference:
Elliot, A.( 1998). Freud 2000. New York :Rotledge.