Freud: The Making of an Illusion

This is NOT a biography of Freud. It really covers his intellectual development for the first half of his life. The portrayal, which I suspect is accurate, is unrelentingly negative and shows Freud to have been pretty much a terrible person. He was a plagiarist, egomaniac, greedy, petty, adulterous man who created a false science. The prose is excellent; nothing fancy but clear throughout.