The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

Freud, Sigmund

ISBN 10: 0394607392 / ISBN 13: 9780394607399

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1965

About this Item

Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Modern Library Giant G 39. Very little shelfwear. Darker blue tweed boards with silver lettering and Torchbearer on the spine. Silver MB logo on the front. White endpages. Edited and with an introduction by Dr. A.A. Brill. The dust jacket has just a little shelfwear with a lightly sunned spine. Big red circle on the front with the lettering in yellow. The jacket is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394607392
• ISBN 13: 9780394607399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Psychology
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

About this title

Synopsis

This reprint edition of The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud includes complete texts of six works that have profoundly influenced the understanding of human behavior. It's presented here in the translation by Dr. A.A. Brill, who for almost 40 years was the standard-bearer of Freudian theories in America.

Introduction
Psychopathology of everyday life
The interpretation of dreams
Three contributions to the theory of sex
Wit & its relation to the unconscious
Totem & taboo
The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Index

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.