Thanatos

Thanatos is a novel based on an imagined [though possible] series of encounters between Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler that began in 1910, when Hitler was a starving artist, living in Vienna, and Freud was actively involved in developing and promoting his influential theory. It explores the roots of Hitler's profound anger and the role it might have played in Freud's turn from a theory that was based exclusively on Eros, the sexual instinct, to one that included an instinct of death. This is not an abstract or theoretical book. Its focus is the human relationships - some loving, some sexual, some hateful - within Freud's family and with this tormented young man they come to know.


Genre: Mystery