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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire and the human psyche. As full of compassionate human interest as of scientific insight, these case histories are also remarkable revelatory works of literature."--Jacket.
10) The uncanny
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind. In these pieces Freud investigates the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often "screen" deeply uncomfortable desires; the links between literature and daydreaming; and our intensely mixed feelings about things we experience as...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Part incisive new biography of Freud, part group biography of the extraordinary friends who saved his life, this riveting story shows how a group of those closest to Freud persuaded him to escape to London following the German annexation of Austria.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 45
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psycho-analysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships.
About the Series: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the octogenarian father of psychoanalysis, his family, and his peers were targeted by the Nazis, revealing how the young commissar appointed to his case chose to hide evidence that would have resulted in Freud's execution.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An alternative history of the work of Freud and his supporters traces the development of psychoanalysis in Europe, placing the movement's origins against a backdrop of the nineteenth century while profiling Freud as a creative, interdisciplinary thinker.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes's friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. In addition to its breathtaking account of their collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy in which the lives of millions hang in the balance, it reveals such matters as the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud-Freud up until the age of fifty-that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's foremost psychoanalytical writer," emphasizes the largely and inevitably...
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