Artnet

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon Were Irritable Sitters, But Painting Each Other’s Portraits Taught Them Valuable Lessons About Art

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
SFGate

‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’ by Frederick Crews

Adamancy is the word for both Sigmund Freud and Frederick Crews. In his new biography, “Freud: The Making of an Illusion,” the UC Berkeley professor emeritus castigates the fraudulent founder of ...
Psychology Today

Re-Righting Freud’s Biography

Review of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. By Adam Phillips. Yale University Press. 178 pp. $25. Although he wrote speculative accounts about the lives of Moses, Michelangelo, ...
Publishers Weekly

Freud: In His Time and Ours

This biography represents a substantial, if not groundbreaking, addition to the extensive body of work on the father of psychoanalysis. The very fact that Sigmund Freud’s life has inspired a deluge of ...