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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
By Sigmund FreudLength17h 20m
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Freud's timeless lectures on psychoanalytic thought, dream interpretation, and his theory of the neuroses are presented here in their authoritative translation to English by G. Stanley Hall.
First delivered and published between 1915 and 1917, these lectures see a mature Freud expound on his theories and practices which at the time were revolutionary. While generally outdated in the modern setting, the methods detailed were valuable as a benchmark upon which future psychologists and psychiatrists built in subsequent years.
Designed to introduce the enthusiastic layman to the psychoanalytic techniques Freud spent decades developing and refining, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis ranges across several key tenets of Freudian thought. Several lectures concern the means by which dreams may be interpreted as an insight into the state of the patient's psyche, with symbols and memories of the distant past particularly cited.
The latter lectures see Freud discuss aspects of his theories of neurosis; various manifestations of mental disorder, their causes and the means by which they are identified and treated, are detailed. Freud is careful to differentiate between the normal realms in which the mind operates - such as in everyday fears and anxieties - and the point at which mental illness and malady is considered to have surfaced.
In the context of dreams and neurosis, Freud relates the sexual impulses and his opinions that the drive for sex has a great bearing on the individual's state of mind. The notion of healthy human development, and the contrasts between it and the abnormal psyche, form a constant thread through all twenty-eight of these lectures.
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GenrePsychology
Length17 hrs 20 mins
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Publish dateAug 23, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2PART I: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS
3FIRST LECTURE: INTRODUCTION
4SECOND LECTURE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS
5THIRD LECTURE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS—(CONTINUED)
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6FOURTH LECTURE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ERRORS—(CONCLUSION)
7PART II: THE DREAM
8FIFTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: DIFFICULTIES AND PRELIMINARY APPROACH
9SIXTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: HYPOTHESIS AND TECHNIQUE OF INTERPRETATION
10SEVENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: MANIFEST DREAM CONTENT AND LATENT DREAM THOUGHT
11EIGHTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD
12NINTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: THE DREAM CENSOR
13TENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: SYMBOLISM IN THE DREAM
14ELEVENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: THE DREAM-WORK
15TWELFTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: ANALYSIS OF SAMPLE DREAMS
16THIRTEENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: ARCHAIC REMNANTS AND INFANTILISM IN THE DREAM
17FOURTEENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: WISH FULFILLMENT
18FIFTEENTH LECTURE: THE DREAM: DOUBTFUL POINTS AND CRITICISM
19PART III: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES
20SIXTEENTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHIATRY
21SEVENTEENTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: THE MEANING OF THE SYMPTOMS
22EIGHTEENTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: TRAUMATIC FIXATION— THE UNCONSCIOUS
23NINETEENTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: RESISTANCE AND SUPPRESSION
24TWENTIETH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: THE SEXUAL LIFE OF MAN
25TWENTY-FIRST LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBIDO AND SEXUAL ORGANIZATIONS
26TWENTY-SECOND LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT AND REGRESSION—ETIOLOGY
27TWENTY-THIRD LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMPTOMS
28TWENTY-FOURTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: ORDINARY NERVOUSNESS
29TWENTY-FIFTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: FEAR AND ANXIETY
30TWENTY-SIXTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: THE LIBIDO THEORY AND NARCISM
31TWENTY-SEVENTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: TRANSFERENCE
32TWENTY-EIGHTH LECTURE: GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES: ANALYTICAL THERAPY