Esther Freud maintains homes in London and Walberswick near Southwold in Suffolk. Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner
Freud: A Life for Our Time Freud: A Life for Our Time Freud: A Life for Our Time is a 1988 biography of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, by the historian Peter Gay. The work is based partly on new material that has become available since the publication of Ernest Jones' "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" (1953). The book has been praised, but has also been criticized by several authors skeptical of psychoanalysis. Gay writes that, "As a historian, I have placed Freud and his work within their various environments: the psychiatric profession he subverted and revolutionized, the Austrian culture in which he