Freud ReaderThe first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work. Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. |
Contents
Preface | xi |
A Chronology | xxxi |
A Note on Symbols and Abbreviations | xlix |
Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental | 37 |
Preface to the Translation of Bernheims Suggestion | 45 |
Draft | 55 |
Katharina | 78 |
Project for a Scientific Psychology | 86 |
PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CULTURE | 429 |
Creative Writers and DayDreaming | 436 |
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood | 443 |
Totem and Taboo | 481 |
The Theme of the Three Caskets | 514 |
The Moses of Michelangelo | 522 |
Contribution to a Questionnaire on Reading | 539 |
An Introduction | 545 |
The Aetiology of Hysteria | 96 |
Letters to Fliess | 111 |
The Interpretation of Dreams | 129 |
On Dreams | 142 |
Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria Dora | 172 |
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | 239 |
Character and Anal Erotism | 293 |
Functioning | 301 |
Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis | 309 |
Wild PsychoAnalysis | 351 |
On Beginning the Treatment | 363 |
Observations on TransferenceLove | 378 |
A Special Type of Choice of Object Made | 387 |
On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in | 394 |
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis Wolf Man | 400 |
Instincts and Their Vicissitudes | 562 |
Repression | 568 |
Mourning and Melancholia | 584 |
Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 594 |
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego Introduction | 626 |
The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex | 661 |
Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical | 670 |
The Question of Lay Analysis Postscript | 678 |
The Future of an Illusion | 685 |
Civilization and Its Discontents | 722 |
Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor | 772 |
The Question of a Weltanschauung | 783 |
Postscript | 796 |
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