The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud by A.A. Brill, ISBN-13: 978-0679601661

The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud by A.A. Brill, ISBN-13: 978-0679601661

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• Publisher: ‎ Modern Library; First Thus edition (July 10, 1995)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎973 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9780679601661
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0679601661

This classic edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced our understanding of human behavior, presented here in the translation by Dr. A. A. Brill, who for almost forty years was the standard-bearer of Freudian theories in America.

• Psychopathology of Everyday Life is perhaps the most accessible of Freud’s books. An intriguing introduction to psychoanalysis, it shows how subconscious motives underlie even the most ordinary mistakes we make in talking, writing, and remembering.

• The Interpretation of Dreams records Freud’s revolutionary inquiry into the meaning of dreams and the power of the unconscious.

• Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex is the seminal work in which Freud traces the development of sexual instinct in humans from infancy to maturity.

• Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious expands on the theories Freud set forth in The Interpretation of Dreams. It demonstrates how all forms of humor attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.

• Totem and Taboo extends Freud’s analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture.

• The History of Psychoanalytic Movement makes clear the ultimate incompatibility of Freud’s ideas with those of his onetime followers Adler and Jung.

Table of Contents:

BOOK I. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE
I. FORGETTING OF PROPER NAMES
II. FORGETTING OF FOREIGN WORDS
III. FORGETTING OF NAMES AND ORDER OF WORDS
IV. CHILDHOOD AND CONCEALING MEMORIES
V. MISTAKES IN SPEECH
VI. MISTAKES IN READING AND WRITING
VII. FORGETTING OF IMPRESSIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
VIII. ERRONEOUSLY CARRIED-OUT ACTIONS
IX SYMPTOMATIC AND CHANCE ACTIONS
X ERRORS
XI COMBINED FAULTY ACTS
XII DETERMINISM—CHANCE—AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS

BOOK II. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
FOREWORD TO THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION
I THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE OF DREAM PROBLEMS (Up to 1900)
II THE METHOD OF DREAM-INTERPRETATION
III THE DREAM AS WISH-FULFILMENT
IV DISTORTION IN DREAMS
V THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS
VI THE DREAM-WORK
VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM-PROCESSES

BOOK III. THREE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF SEX
I THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS
II INFANTILE SEXUALITY
III THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PUBERTY

BOOK IV.
WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
A. ANALYSIS
I INTRODUCTION
II THE TECHNIQUE OF WIT
III THE TENDENCIES OF WIT
B. SYNTHESIS
IV THE PLEASURE MECHANISM AND THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF WIT
V THE MOTIVES OF WIT AND WIT AS A SOCIAL PROCESS
C. THEORETICAL PART
VI THE RELATION OF WIT TO DREAMS AND TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
VII WIT AND THE VARIOUS FORMS OF THE COMIC

BOOK V. TOTEM AND TABOO
I THE SAVAGE’S DREAD OF INCEST
II TABOO AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF EMOTIONS
III ANIMISM, MAGIC AND THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THOUGHT
IV THE INFANTILE RECURRENCE OF TOTEMISM

BOOK VI.
THE HISTORY OF THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT

Note
About the Author

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic). Between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna; in 1938 Hitler’s invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year.His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freud’s life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half century.

A. A. Brill (1874–1948) was the standard-bearer of Freudian theories in America for almost forty years.

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