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''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'' is a biography of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones. The most famous biography of Freud, ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'' was originally published in three volumes (first volume 1953, second volume 1955, third volume 1957); a one-volume edition abridged by literary critics Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus followed in 1961. Although his biography has retained its status as a classic, Jones has been criticized for presenting an overly-favorable image of Freud. ==Scholarly reception== Psychologist Hans Eysenck, in ''Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire'' (1985), calls ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'' the "most famous" of the well-known biographies of Freud, but sees it as "more a mythology than a history, leaving out as it does nearly all the warts and making many alterations to the portrait by suppressing data and items which might reflect unfavourably on Freud."〔Eysenck 1986. p. 213.〕 Historian Peter Gay, in ''Freud: A Life for Our Time'' (1988), writes that Jones's work remains "the classic biography of Freud" and "contains many astute judgments" despite its author's graceless style and tendency to "separate the man and the work." Gay sees the most serious charge against Jones as being "malice against other followers of Freud", a supposedly unconquerable jealousy that led him to be scathing about rivals such as Sándor Ferenczi. Gay believes that the charge has less merit than is commonly thought, and that "Jones's final verdict on Ferenczi, which heavily hints that in his last years Ferenczi was subject to psychotic episodes, and to which strong exception has been taken, largely echoes the opinion that Freud expressed in an unpublished letter to Jones."〔Gay 1995. pp. 743-744.〕 Sociologist Christopher Badcock, writing in 1992, states that although "routinely denigrated by more recent competitors, Jones's work remains unrivalled and is the only biography to include summaries of all Freud's works known at the time of writing."〔Badcock 1992. pp. 175-176.〕 Philosopher Richard Wollheim calls Jones's work a "great" biography, but observes that while Jones had "lived within Freud's intimate circle for several decades", he was able to write only what Anna Freud found acceptable. Wollheim comments that, "Jones was even-handed between life and thought, and the result is a huge sandwich in which the two alternate."〔Wollheim 1991. pp. xxi-xxii.〕 Cultural historian Richard Webster writes in ''Why Freud Was Wrong'' (1995) that while Jones wrote with the avowed objective of correcting a "mendacious legend" about Freud, Jones replaced that negative with a positive legend. Webster believes that Jones, "did not hesitate to retouch reality wherever it seemed to conflict with the portrait which he sought to create."〔Webster 2005. p. 14.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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