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Freud's 1938 flight from Vienna to London—psychologist Cohen's ostensible topic—was enabled by Anton Sauerwald, an underknown Nazi chemist apparently motivated by the sympathy of one educated man for another. While probably bribed, Sauerwald also lent or gave Freud money, assumed risks, and died in relative misery shortly after World War II. But Freud's "escape" occupies only the book's second half. Cohen more significantly focuses on Freud's evolving understandin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More