Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

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Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)

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