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The Freud reader / edited by Peter Gay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 1995.Description: xlvii, 832 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780099577119 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.1952
Contents:
Preface. -- Introduction. -- Sigmund Freud : a chronology. -- A note on symbols and abbreviations. -- Overture: an autobiographical study. -- pt. 1. 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. -- pt. 2. 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. (cont). pt. 3. 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 ; Observance 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"). -- pt. 4. Psychoanalysis in culture: Obsessive actions and religious practices ; Creative writers and day-dreaming ; Leonard da Vinci and a memory of childhood ; Totem and taboo ; The theme of the three caskets ; The Moses of Michelangelo ; Contribution to a questionnaire on reading. pt. 5: 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 ; The ego and the id. -- pt. 6: The last chapter: The dissolution of the oedipus complex ; Negation ; Some psychial consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes ; The question of lay analysis ; The future of an illusion ; Civilization and its discontents ; Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor ; Lecture XXXII: Anxiety and instinctual life ; Lecture XXXV: The question of a Weltanschauung. -- Postscript. -- Selected bibliography. -- Index.
Summary: Compilation of 51 key texts, spanning Freud's career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and in to his late writings.
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Preface. --
Introduction. --
Sigmund Freud : a chronology. --
A note on symbols and abbreviations. --
Overture: an autobiographical study. --
pt. 1. 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. --
pt. 2. 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. (cont). pt. 3. 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 ; Observance 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"). --
pt. 4. Psychoanalysis in culture: Obsessive actions and religious practices ; Creative writers and day-dreaming ; Leonard da Vinci and a memory of childhood ; Totem and taboo ; The theme of the three caskets ; The Moses of Michelangelo ; Contribution to a questionnaire on reading. pt. 5: 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 ; The ego and the id. --
pt. 6: The last chapter: The dissolution of the oedipus complex ; Negation ; Some psychial consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes ; The question of lay analysis ; The future of an illusion ; Civilization and its discontents ; Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor ; Lecture XXXII: Anxiety and instinctual life ; Lecture XXXV: The question of a Weltanschauung. --
Postscript. --
Selected bibliography. --
Index.

Compilation of 51 key texts, spanning Freud's career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and in to his late writings.

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