Vienna Triangle [Kindle Edition]

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In a sometimes uneasy amalgam of psychoanalytic history and feminist fiction, Webster, in her fourth novel (after The Beheading Game, 2006), summons Freud’s inner circle. Young scholar Kate Berg is spending the summer of 1968 in Provincetown with her ailing mother when she has a chance encounter with pioneering analyst Helene Deutsch, one of the last surviving members of Freud’s inner circle. About to begin a dissertation on the early female analysts, Kate is eager to interview Helene about the movement that so powerfully shaped the twentieth century. What she hears about the infidelity, backstabbing, and sheer cruelty of the enlightened ones shocks her, especially after she learns she may be the granddaughter of Victor Tausk, one of Freud’s most brilliant disciples. Meanwhile, like Helene once did, Kate must face down questions about what it means to be a good mother and finding the right balance between work and family. An intriguing if speculative portrait of Freud’s earliest disciples and their tangled history that will be of special interest to psychology students. --Joanne Wilkinson

"Brenda Webster has immersed herself in the lives and the sexual entanglements of an extraordinary set of people, and out of the artifacts they left behind (or that she has fashioned), her characters pose crucial questions about women, war, psychoanalysis—all the unavoidable conflicts of 20th century life among the intelligentsia who shaped their time."  —Rosellen Brown, author, Before and After
"A hypnotic narrative about the grand project of psychoanalysis, now 100 years old, and the coiled tensions between Freud and his gallery of disciples; about the clashing constraints of genius and personality and the intractable legacy of despair. There is so much pure knowledge—knowledge about what it means to be human—embedded in these pages that you are torn between keeping up with the story's barreling pace and wanting to linger with some of the insights that are almost casually delivered, perhaps because they became integral to 20th-century culture. A fascinating exposure of both Freud's Inner Circle and the terra infirma of the human psyche."  —Lynn Stegner, author, Because a Fire Was in My Head
"A riveting read set amidst the student uprisings of the late sixties . . . a dramatic exploration of family romances inside and outside the circle that so famously gathered around the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The author makes brilliant use of fascinating historical material as her heroine, on a quest for self-discovery, investigates the intrigues that developed among the master's impassioned disciples—and their descendants."  —Sandra M. Gilbert, author, The Mad Woman in the Attic
"In this subtle novel of self-discovery, a young graduate student in the 1960s interviews the aging Helene Deutsch and thereby enters into the world of Victor Tausk, Lou Andreas-Salomé and Sigmund Freud. [Vienna Triangle] takes on the nuclear kernel of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex." —Psychoanalysis and History (September 1, 2011)