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The Penguin Freud Reader

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141912066

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The Penguin Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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.

Freud Reader

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0393314030

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Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141915517

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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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.

The Unconscious

Author : Joel Weinberger,Valentina Stoycheva
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462541096

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The Unconscious by Joel Weinberger,Valentina Stoycheva Pdf

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

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141930503

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The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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.

The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141938127

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The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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.'

Lacan

Author : Lionel Bailly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781780741628

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Lacan by Lionel Bailly Pdf

Lacan without the jargon! Jacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to refine Freudian insights with the use of linguistics, arguing that the structure of unconscious is like a language. Controversial throughout his lifetime both for adopting mathematical concepts in his psychoanalytic framework and for advocating therapy sessions of varying length, he is widely misunderstood and often unfairly dismissed as impenetrable. In this clear, wide-ranging primer, Lionel Bailly demonstrates how Lacan's ideas are still vitally relevant to contemporary issues of mental health treatment. Defending Lacan from his numerous detractors, past and present, Bailly guides the reader through Lacan's canon, from l'objet petit a to The Mirror Stage and beyond. Including coverage of developments in Lacanian psychoanalysis since his death, this is the perfect introduction to the great modern theorist.

Becoming Freud

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300158663

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Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips Pdf

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

The Psychology of Love

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141912059

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The Psychology of Love by Sigmund Freud Pdf

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious - have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive nature of human desire. In the famous case study of the eighteen-year-old 'Dora', we see Freud at work, both putting into practice and testing his sexual theories that were to change the modern world.

Wild Analysis

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141937540

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Wild Analysis by Sigmund Freud Pdf

'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. When Freud is writing about technique in psychoanalysis - and these papers [in Wild Analysis] represent his most significant contributions to the subject over three decades of work - it is important to remember that he is talking about what a couple, an analyst and a so-called patient, can do in a room together. For better or worse.' Adam Phillips

Studies in Hysteria

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141937014

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Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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. Freud's recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient's past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire and the human psyche.

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1891396633

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An Outline of Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud Pdf

2011 Reprint of 1949 London edition.Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing this work it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year after his death. Composed of three sections, the "Outline" opens with a description of the psychic apparatus, including its spatial organization and differentiation into agencies. The ego, which develops through contact with the outside world, attempts to reconcile the needs of the id, the superego, and reality. The id represents the hereditary past, the superego, tradition. Drives, which are basically conservative and located in the id, represent somatic needs for the psyche. Eros and the destruction, or death, impulse, whether antagonists or combined in biological functions, are the two fundamental impulses.

The Secret Artist

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609800116

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The Secret Artist by Lesley Chamberlain Pdf

Widely acclaimed for giving "an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche’s personal experience and his most famous ideas" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art itself. The very idea of the subconcious as a constant, active presence in our daily lives was Freud’s greatest contribution and has allowed generations of people to experience their lives more deeply. His rigorous exploration of the dynamism and structures of the subconscious, Chamberlain argues, was in itself an important work of art. Using Freud’s own writing on art and the aesthetic theories of thinkers ranging from Nietzsche to Lionel Trilling, Chamberlain examines Freud’s art and shows how his imaginative creations have revolutionized not only mental health, but our thinking about art in general, by opening up the individual subconscious as a subject. In elegant, accessible prose she describes how "Freud split the aesthetic atom, releasing a vast energy for individual creativity."

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780486282534

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud Pdf

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On Psychopathology

Author : Sigmund Freud,James Strachey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anxiety
ISBN : 0140138005

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On Psychopathology by Sigmund Freud,James Strachey Pdf

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.