Wonderful ... Tallis has that essential quality of any would-be rehabilitator of Freud: a cheerful willingness to discard a great many of the master’s teachings.
Reading Mortal Secrets is like waltzing around a crowded ballroom, past quivering gold leaf and sternly curved flowers, while your partner murmurs in your ear very elegant, very precise summaries of primal parricide and the topographical model of the mind. The experience is not just entertaining. It is refreshingly honest ... He uses his lifetime of professional expertise to adjudicate freely and fairly between the "Freud bashers" and the fanatics who "have treated his works like scripture.
