Frink and Freud

Description

The fateful meeting of Freud and Horace Frink, and the ensuing scandal that nearly destroyed psychoanalysis In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of his theories of psychoanalysis, whose traumatic childhood and complicated personal life came to cast a dark shadow over Freud's professional career. Inspired by this little-known and tragic true story, artist Lionel Richerand and philosopher Pierre Peju have woven a spellbinding and thought-provoking fable of two divorces, three deaths, and a menage a quatre.

French artist and animator Lionel Richerand studied at the ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs, specializing in illustration and directing animated films. In 2007 he published Petit conte leguminesque, and later directed The Fear of the Wolf. He is currently preparing his own feature film and several comic book projects. Pierre Peju is a French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, whose best-known works are the prizewinning novels Le rire de l'ogre and The Girl from the Chartreuse. Pierre has also written radio plays, and several of his short stories have been adapted for the stage.