The Penguin Freud Reader

The Penguin Freud Reader
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0141912065

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 studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for desires that have never found expression. Much more than this, however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of the most haunting writers of the modern age.

The Penguin Freud Reader

The Penguin Freud Reader
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0141187433

Bringing together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer an introduction to his life and work, this collection presents 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.

Freud Reader

Freud Reader
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 906
Release: 1995-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393314038

Selections span Freud's career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and his later philosophical writings. Most are reproduced in full and have been selected from the standard edition. Gay ties all together with an analytical introduction, chronology of life and work, and commentary throughout. Ideal size book for reading and browsing marred only by the inexplicable use of poor quality (and acidic) paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Unconscious

The Unconscious
Author: Joel Weinberger
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462541097

Weaving together state-of-the-art research, theory, and clinical insights, this book provides a new understanding of the unconscious and its centrality in human functioning. The authors review heuristics, implicit memory, implicit learning, attribution theory, implicit motivation, automaticity, affective versus cognitive salience, embodied cognition, and clinical theories of unconscious functioning. They integrate this work with cognitive neuroscience views of the mind to create an empirically supported model of the unconscious. Arguing that widely used psychotherapies--including both psychodynamic and cognitive approaches--have not kept pace with current science, the book identifies promising directions for clinical practice. Winner--American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Theory)

The Uncanny

The Uncanny
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0141930500

An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay he deconstructs both da Vinci's character and the nature of his genius. As ever, many of his exploratory avenues lead to the subject's sexuality - why did da Vinci depict the naked human body the way hedid? What of his tendency to surround himself with handsome young boys that he took on as his pupils? Intriguing, thought-provoking and often contentious, this volume contains some of Freud's best writing.

Becoming Freud

Becoming Freud
Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300158661

A long-time editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud offers a fresh look at the father of psychoanalysis.

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2002-11-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0141938129

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: 'Little Hans', 'The Rat Man', 'The Wolf Man' and 'Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.'

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-09-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 014191551X

These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And Freud's extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicist's naïve pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1977
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780871401182

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions. Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work --along with a note on the individual volume--by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale.

On Psychopathology

On Psychopathology
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1993
Genre: Anxiety
ISBN: 9780140138009

Arranged by subject-matter, this book brings together papers published as early as 1895 and as late as 1926. In this way the reader can trace the historical evolution of Freud's ideas. The earliest paper is his classical account of anxiety neurosis, a term coined by Freud which was to win such general acceptance that its origin is now usually overlooked. Other papers cover a range of pathological syndromes, including hysteria, obsessional neuroses, sexual deviations and paranoia. The last work in the book is Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, published as a separate book in 1926.