Essentials of Psychoanalysis
Author(s): Sigmund Freud
In this selection of her father's writings Anna Freud has defined and included, in a single volume, the essential, irreducible elements of psycho-analysis. She begins with the most appropriate of Freud's own introductory essays, The Question of Lay Analysis, and follows the sequence of themes that he adopted in that work: The meaning of dreams, the concept of the unconscious, instinctual and sexual life, the structure of the personality, defence mechanisms and symptom-formation. The result, with her own lucid commentaries supplementing her father's writing in the authorised translations by James Strachey, is a coherent, manageable and authoritative guide to the principal themes and concepts of psycho-analysis.
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"He was possessed of exceptional literary gifts. There can be no question that he was a great writer: to read him is to be beguiled by him... his influence on all of us was enormous, and it would be as impossible to return to a pre-Freudian way of thinking as to return to a pre-heliocentric theory of the solar system" The Times "The great founder of psychoanalysis" The Times
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.44
- : 01 May 2005
- : 198mm X 129mm X 38mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 624
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Sigmund Freud
