Author(s): Pierre Péju; Lionel Richerand (Illustrator)

Graphic Novels

In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, theories of psychoanalysis, whose traumatic childhood and complicated personal life later cast a shadow over Freud's professional career--and came close to destroying his reputation. This little-known and ultimately tragic true story of two divorces, three deaths, and a ménage à quatre, as well as the questionable motives behind Freud's involvement in it is the subject of a groundbreaking collaboration between artist and animator Lionel Richer and the prizewinning philosopher, biographer, and novelist Pierre Péju. After all, what better medium can there be than the graphic novel to place the American dream on the couch of European psychoanalysis?