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Book -- Dispatches From the Freud Wars: Psychoanalysis and Its Passions , by John Forrester.
The company's Web page depicts him as a Cincinnatus of retailing, one who "did not set out to found a retail group, but did so as a result of one of his passions, the discovery of fine craftsmanship and design."
If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges.
Woolf devoted herself to literature and believed in the rights of women, but both these passions were part of a humbler--and therefore grander--pursuit.