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Sigmund Freud
An Introduction
Language: English
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Keywords
Young Man; Psychological Wednesday Society; dreams; Feminine Passive Position; analysis; Inverted Oedipus Complex; psychoanalysis; Direct Oedipus Complex; Vienna; Individual Psychic Space; London; Friend Wilhelm Fliess; free association; Sadistic Anal Stage; hysteria; Clinical Practice; Oedipus; Infantile Sexual Theories; phantasy; post-Freudian Psychoanalysts; transference; Psychic Bisexuality; psychic; Unpleasure Principle; myth; Pathological Mourning; Dora; Pure Speculation; love; Genital Stage; hate; Wilhelm Fliess; clinical; Negative Therapeutic Reaction; cases; Manic Depressive Patients; paradox; Feeding Function; ego; Individual’s Psychic Life; id; Normal Infantile Development; superego; Neurophysiological Symptoms; anxiety; Parricidal Impulses; psychosis; Erogenous Zone; religion; civilisation
Publication date: 06-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 06-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Paperback
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Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from the beginning of his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud?s discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today. Elegantly and clearly written, each chapter leaves the reader with a solid framework for understanding key Freudian concepts, and an appetite for further knowledge. Accessible for readers inside and outside the field of psychoanalysis, there is nothing at all equivalent in English.
The book starts with Freud?s life before the discovery of psychoanalysis, spanning from 1856 to 1900, when The Interpretation of Dreams was published. The subsequent chapters are devoted to the presentation of the key notions of psychoanalysis. A chronological perspective shows how Freud's work has been constantly enriched by the successive contributions of Freud himself, as well as his successors. Freud?s contributions are also embedded in the daily, clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The last chapter concerns Freud?s life from 1900 to 1939, the year of his death.
This fascinating, concise and accessible introduction to the life and work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential and revolutionary figures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by internationally-renowned author Jean-Michel Quinodoz, will appeal to both professional readers and anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and the history of ideas.. The book presents the major contributions of Sigmund Freud in their nascent state, as and when they appeared, and shows that they are as alive today as ever.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
A constantly evolving system of thought
CHAPTER ONE
Sigmund Freud from 1856 to 1900
CHAPTER TWO
Hysteria and the discovery of psychoanalysis
CHAPTER THREE
Self-analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
The interpretation of dreams
CHAPTER FIVE
Manifestations of the unconscious in everyday life
CHAPTER SIX
Infantile sexuality
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Oedipus complex and the unconscious
CHAPTER EIGHT
The transference, the psychoanalytic setting and technique
CHAPTER NINE
Four of Freud's clinical observations
CHAPTER TEN
Metapsychology (Freud, 1915-1917)
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The fundamental conflict between the life drive and the death drive
CHAPTER TWELVE
The ego, the id and the superego
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The fear of losing the loved, desired person
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Psychosis, disavowal of reality and ego-splitting
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Religion and civilization: pessimism or lucidity?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Sigmund Freud from 1900 to 1939
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jean-Michel Quinodoz is an internationally-acclaimed psychoanalytic theorist and clinician. He is author of The Taming of Solitude, Dreams That Turn Over a Page, Reading Freud, Listening to Hanna Segal and Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira (all Routledge).
