Psyche: A novel of the young Freud

by Peter Michalos

His name is Sigmund Freud. He is twenty-nine years old and hungry for a discovery that will catapult him to fame. His mentor, Josef Breuer, brings him a patient: Lucy O., a sixteen-year-old girl suffering from hysteria. Under hypnosis, Lucy reveals her true self - and takes the young Freud on a journey that shakes his beliefs and brings him to the limits of reason. In this breathtaking work of the imagination, Peter Michalos daringly reinvents the young Freud, forced to choose between the comforts of science, personified by the rigorously analytical Wilhelm Fliess, and the liberating but dangerous mentality of a mythic time before time, introduced to him by Sophia Schliemann, the seductive wife of the legendary discoverer of ancient Troy. Told with unrelenting intensity up to its extraordinary climax in earthquake-torn Delphi, Psyche marks the arrival of a spell-binding writer.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1993