The Penguin Freud Reader

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Penguin UK, Jan 26, 2006 - Psychology - 592 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
An Outline of Psychoanalysis
The Splitting of the Ego in Defence Processes
Constructions in Analysis
Fetishism
Note on the Magic Notepad
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis The Wolfman
Mourning and Melancholia
Lapses
Observations on Love in Transference
On the Psychology of the Grammarschool
Remembering Repeating and Working Through
from Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life
Formulations on the Two Principles of Psychic Functioning
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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.


Adam Phillips was formerly Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Darwin's Worms, Promises, Promises, Houdini's Box and, most recently, Going Sane.

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