The Wolf Man – written by Richard Appignanesi and illustrated by Sława Harasymowicz

Vienna, 1910. A young Russian aristocrat, Sergei Pankejeff , desperately seeks the help of Sigmund Freud at his home in Bergstrasse. Freud’s analysis comes to focus on his patient’s disturbing childhood dream of a menacing pack of white wolves perched on the tree outside his bedroom window. It was the interpretation of this dream that earned Pankejeff his enduring sobriquet “The Wolf Man” – and Freud his central position in modern thought. We follow the course of Pankejeff ’s troubled life, and the attempt by Freud, and subsequent analysts, to unravel the source of his crippling neurosis.

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