11 JUNE 1988, page 36

A Giant With Certain Weaknesses

Frances Partridge FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME by Peter Gay J. M. Dent, £16.95, pp. 810 T he hero of this impressive and ex- tremely interesting biography is not so much a man as......

The Greeks Had Fewer Words For It

Jasper Griffin THE CARE OF THE SELF: HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, VOLUME III by Michel Foucault Allen Lane, £17.95, pp. 279 M ichel Foucault embarked on his History of Sexuality in the......