Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wittingshire: Human Traces

re: "...When I followed Paul's advice and got hold of Sebastian Faulks' Human Traces, I didn't realize what I was letting myself in for. Human Traces has its lyrical moments and its profound ones (and its uncomfortably crude ones). Mostly, however, it is a long (550 pages), detailed, and historically accurate description--albeit in novel form--of the birth of modern neuroscience and psychoanalysis..."...

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