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Sigmund Freud
One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, this project, under the general editorship of Adam Phillips, reimagines one of the modern era's greatest writers
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Sigmund Freud,Peter Gay
It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud’s entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilisation and…
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Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud’s explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case…
In this collection the translator and the scientist come together in a rich, engrossing brew.
A collection of some of Freud’s most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and…
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This volume brings together Freud’s main contributions to the psychology of love. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive nature…
In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. Here, he argues that civilised…
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Susan Sugarman
In this clear and concise volume, Susan Sugarman introduces the work of Sigmund Freud and keenly illustrates the impact his pioneering contributions have had on the way we think about…
Written against a background of war and racism, this work sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide.
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Considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. This work focuses on what the author perceives to be one…
The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. This…
Alistair Ross
Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. The volume features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and…
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Jokes offer immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. This book brings together a…
Reza Nazari
Journey Through the Mind: The Sigmund Freud Story for Kids "The Story of Sigmund Freud: An Inspiring Story for Kids" is an enriching and visually captivating book designed to introduce…
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Exploring the Mind: Sigmund Freud's Journey for Kids "The Story of Sigmund Freud: An Inspiring Story for Kids" is a meticulously crafted bilingual book that offers a captivating exploration into…
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis is a book written by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. First published in 1910, it is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to…
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"A Young Girl's Diary" is a book by Sigmund Freud that was published in 1915. It is a collection of diary entries written by a young girl named Anna between…
Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners is a book written by Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential thinkers in the field of psychology. It was first published in 1920 and…
Freud’s letters contain revealing commentaries on his working methods, his concept of narcissism, and his interpretation of Moses, and they treat the themes that preoccupied him in old age: death…
Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfillment" - attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses…
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If you don’t know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we’re living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book…
"Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex" is a seminal work by Sigmund Freud, originally published in 1905 as "Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie" in German. It marks a significant milestone…
Delusion and Dream is a collection of essays written by Sigmund Freud, one of the most famous and influential figures in the field of psychology, along with the novelist Wilhelm…
A collection of Freud’s major texts on love, human relations and loss, including: The Taboo on Virginity ; On Female Sexuality ; A Child is Being Beaten ; Three Essays…
Freud’s seminal volume of 20th-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
"Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" is a seminal work by Sigmund Freud, first published in 1921. In this book, Freud delves into the dynamics of groups and…
"Leonardo da Vinci" by Sigmund Freud is a psychological study of the renowned Renaissance artist and polymath, Leonardo da Vinci. Published in 1910, the book represents Freud's attempt to apply…
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Among the first of Sigmund Freud's many contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis was The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, and considered his greatest work - even by Freud himself…
J D Ponce
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity…
Christfried Toegel
Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics and scholars of Freud, psychoanalytic studies, the history of science and…
It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud found how faint the line of demarcation was between the normal and neurotic person, and that…
Dr Sigmund Freud
"The Interpretation of Dreams" by Dr. Sigmund Freud is a groundbreaking work in psychoanalysis, delving into the depths of the unconscious mind through the lens of dream analysis. As a…
Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient’s capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. This book discusses about techniques…
"Dream psychology is the key to Freud's works and to all modern psychology" - Andre Tridon
This handsome gift edition presents one of Sigmund Freud's most influential works, Dream Psychology…
The wholly updated Revised Standard Edition retains the original canonical translation while adding extensive updates from Mark Solms, annotating and clarifying conceptual and lexicographic ambiguities in both the translation and…
Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In attempting a discussion of the Interpretation of Dreams, I do not believe that I have overstepped the bounds of neuropathological interest. For, on psychological investigation, the dream proves to…
"Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal." In this penetrating exploration of the human psyche amidst the tumult of war…
New, compact, abridged edition of The Interpretation of Dreams, one of Freud's most important contributions to modern thought and a seminal work of psychological theory. The introduction by Freud expert…
United Library
Sigmund Freud: The Biography of the Founder of Psychoanalysis, Writings on the Ego and Id, and his Basic Interpretation of Dreams" is an enlightening and comprehensive exploration of the life…
Kathleen Krull
Before Freud, nobody discussed unconscious motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial…
Pamela Thurschwell (University of Sussex, UK)
The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Encouraging and preparing readers to approach Freud’s original texts…
