Mark Edmundson, Towards Reading Freud U. of Chicago Press, 2007
What drives people to accept, and often embrace, authoritarian figures? Sigmund Freud thought a lot about the human hunger for patriarchs, fascist tyrants, and fundamentalist leaders. In The Death of Sigmund Freud, Mark Edmundson describes Freud's investigations into the human psyche in relation to tyranny, war and religion.