Merve Emre reviews Frank Tallis’s biography “Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind,” and surveys both the long history of Freud biography and the ideas of the founder of psychoanalysis himself.
With Freud, the possibilities for interpreting his life are limitless, as he well knew. In an 1885 letter to his wife, Martha, written when he was twenty-eight, he boasted that he had burned all his letters, notes, and manuscripts, “which one group of people, as yet unborn and fated to misfortune, will feel acutely. Since you can’t guess whom I mean I will tell you: they are my biographers.
Crucial to Oedipus’ story is that he did not realize that Queen Jocasta was his mother. His was a tragedy of misrecognition, and his eventual self-blinding literalized his blindness to the nature of his desire. A similar blindness afflicted Freud’s patients, he observed, and nowhere more powerfully than in their relationships with “persons who can revive in them the picture of the mother and the father”—lovers, teachers, bosses, priests, and, of course, psychoanalysts.
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