In 2022 we would be hard pressed to find a luminary from the twentieth century that is more misunderstood in ours than Sigmund Freud. Or perhaps you could put it this way, Sigmund Freud is a personality thought to be understood yet at the same time universally got so wrong. It seems a great irony that the very mind behind the ideas of projection and transference would himself be so blighted by both three-quarters of a century after his death. Brett Kahr's Freud's Pandemics helps to put this right.

There have been many attempts to humanize the legend, not least by many of his contemporaries - notably Ernest Jones' three-volume set. Yet, despite its depth, reach, and wide acclaim, this work has been criticized as being at one extreme a