Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought

By Erich Fromm

Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought is Erich Fromm's last book, published in 1979, a critical assessment of the founder of psychoanalysis. Fromm honors Freud's discoveries, including the unconscious, transference and the importance of childhood, while showing how Freud's middle-class and patriarchal assumptions limited his theories. He reexamines Freud's ideas about sexuality, dreams and the death instinct, and suggests how psychoanalysis can be freed from those blind spots.

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David Heinemeier Hansson: “What follows is a master class in a critical reading of a great master... Really good.”