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The Freud reader

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Norton paperback editionDescription: xlvii, 832 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393314038
  • 0393314030
  • 0099577119
  • 9780099577119
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF 173 FRE 
Contents:
Overture: An autobiographical study -- Making of a psychoanalyst: Preface to the translation of Bernheim's Suggestion ; Charcot ; Draft B ; Josef Breuer, Anna O. ; Katharina ; Project for a scientific psychology ; Draft K ; The aetiology of hysteria ; Letters to Fliess ; Screen memories -- The classic theory: The interpretation of dreams ; On dreams ; Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria ("Dora") ; Three essays on the theory of sexuality ; Character and anal erotism ; Family romances ; Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning -- Therapy and technique: Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis ("Rat Man") and process notes for the case history ; 'Wild' psycho-analysis ; Recommendations to physicians practicing psycho-analysis ; On beginning the treatment ; Observations on transference-love ; A special type of choice of object made by men (contributions to the psychology of love I) ; On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love (contributions to the psychology of love II) ; From the history of an infantile neurosis ("Wolf Man") -- Psychoanalysis in culture: Obsessive actions and religious practices ; Creative writers and day-dreaming ; Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood ; Totem and taboo ; The theme of the three caskets ; The Moses of Michelangelo ; Contribution to a questionnaire on reading -- Transitions and revisions: On narcissism: an introduction ; Instincts and their vicissitudes ; Repression ; The unconscious ; Mourning and melancholia ; Some character-types met with in psycho-analytic work: [the exceptions] ; Beyond the pleasure principle ; Group psychology and the analysis of the ego [introduction] ; The ego and the id -- The last chapter: The dissolution of the Oedipus complex ; Negation ; Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes ; The question of lay analysis [postscript] ; The future of an illusion ; Civilization and its discontents ; Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor ; Lecture XXXII: Anxiety and instinctual life ; Lexture XXXV: The question of a Weltanschauung.
Summary: The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work. Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 799-801) and index.

Overture: An autobiographical study -- Making of a psychoanalyst: Preface to the translation of Bernheim's Suggestion ; Charcot ; Draft B ; Josef Breuer, Anna O. ; Katharina ; Project for a scientific psychology ; Draft K ; The aetiology of hysteria ; Letters to Fliess ; Screen memories -- The classic theory: The interpretation of dreams ; On dreams ; Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria ("Dora") ; Three essays on the theory of sexuality ; Character and anal erotism ; Family romances ; Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning -- Therapy and technique: Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis ("Rat Man") and process notes for the case history ; 'Wild' psycho-analysis ; Recommendations to physicians practicing psycho-analysis ; On beginning the treatment ; Observations on transference-love ; A special type of choice of object made by men (contributions to the psychology of love I) ; On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love (contributions to the psychology of love II) ; From the history of an infantile neurosis ("Wolf Man") -- Psychoanalysis in culture: Obsessive actions and religious practices ; Creative writers and day-dreaming ; Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood ; Totem and taboo ; The theme of the three caskets ; The Moses of Michelangelo ; Contribution to a questionnaire on reading --
Transitions and revisions: On narcissism: an introduction ; Instincts and their vicissitudes ; Repression ; The unconscious ; Mourning and melancholia ; Some character-types met with in psycho-analytic work: [the exceptions] ; Beyond the pleasure principle ; Group psychology and the analysis of the ego [introduction] ; The ego and the id -- The last chapter: The dissolution of the Oedipus complex ; Negation ; Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes ; The question of lay analysis [postscript] ; The future of an illusion ; Civilization and its discontents ; Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor ; Lecture XXXII: Anxiety and instinctual life ; Lexture XXXV: The question of a Weltanschauung.

The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.

What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.

The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work.

Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. -- Publisher's description.

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