Brenda Webster Novelist, critic, and translator

Freudian Ideology in the Final Analysis: A memoir offers a respectful critique of life on the couch

Date of Review: 
05/07/2000
Published Work: 
Reviewer: 
Jeffry Berman
Source: 
San Francisco Chronicle

Review Excerpt:

``I was born and brought up to be in psychoanalysis and, as a result, much of my adult life was spent on the couch.'' Thus begins Brenda Webster's new memoir, The Last Good Freudian, a fascinating account of her lifelong affair with an ideology that became for her and countless others a philosophy of life, an almost religious faith and finally an addiction.