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Freud, Sigmund

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In this selection of her father’s writings Anna Freud has defined and included, in a single volume, the essential, irreducible elements of psychoanalysis. 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, defense mechanisms, and symptom-formation. The result, with her own lucid commentaries supplementing her father’s writing in the authorized translations by James Strachey, is a coherent, manageable, and authoritative guide to the principal themes and concepts of psycho-nalysis.

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Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Anna Freud was a principal exponent of her father’s work, and during her lifetime she gained a worldwide reputation for her scientific leadership in the continuing exploration and extension of his discoveries. James Strachey is the translator of numerous works by Sigmund Freud.

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In this selection of her father's writings, Anna Freud has defined and included, in a single volume, the essential irreducible elements of psychoanalysis. The result is a coherent and authoritative guide to the principal themes and concepts of the theory.

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