Through the Clouds of Smoke: Freud’s Final Days by Suzanne Leclair & William Roy

Through the Clouds of Smoke: Freud’s Final Days by Suzanne Leclair & William Roy

Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the lung cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism.

In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar smoker, discovers that he has mouth cancer, a truth long hidden from him by doctors. Despite his diagnosis, Freud survived 15 more years, convinced the cigars that were slowly destroying him increased his productivity and gave him control over himself.

Meanwhile, Europe was being ravaged by a different type of cancer. In 1933, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and eventually took over Austria, which was Sigmund Freud’s home country. As the Nazis burned Freud’s books and his colleagues worried for his safety, he had no other option but to flee Vienna and settle in London, where he spent the rest of his life.

With precision and seriousness, Suzanne Leclair and William Roy present a raw and intricate portrayal of the founder of psychoanalysis during his final days. In this account, Freud, a controversial figure, is depicted with all his contradictions and vulnerabilities, mirroring our own anxieties and struggles when confronting aging and mortality.

ISBN-13: 9781643376011

Publisher: Humanoids Inc.

Dimensions: 19.3 x 1.52 x 25.91 cm

Cover: Paperback

Pages: 136

Colour: Black & White

Writer: Suzanne Leclair

Artist: Wiliam Roy

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