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The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Barry N. Malzberg

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Published 1985 by Ballantine/Del Rey · 288 pages

Nebula Nominee 1986
Science Fiction

Synopsis

Aboard a deep-space vessel, a simulacrum of Sigmund Freud — complete with the psychoanalyst's memories and personality — is tasked with maintaining the crew's mental health during their harrowing interstellar journey. As Freud's replicant grapples with his own existential crisis while attempting to counsel others, the novel becomes a darkly comic meditation on identity, the limits of psychoanalysis, and what it means to be human even when you are not.

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US

ISBN

9780345318619

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