Sigmund Freud

In Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins, Sigmund Freud embarks on an exploration of the fundamental tensions that exist between the individual and the demands of society. Written during his later years, Freud delves deep into the psychological underpinnings that foster the complex relationship between our innate desires and the constraints imposed by cultural norms. This profound investigation is not...

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives. This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one of the modern era's greatest writers. These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilised'...

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human—from birth to death and everything in between. VINTAGE MINIS—GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds and awakens...

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality—that there is no sexuality without fantasy, conscious or unconscious—have changed the ways we think about erotic life. In these papers, Freud develops his now famous theories about the sexuality of childhood and the transgressive nature of...

A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including On the Introduction of Narcissism; Remembering, Repeating and Working Through; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; The Ego and the Id and Inhibition, Symptom and Fear.

When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses — most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window — eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma. It took over four years to treat him, and The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases became one of Freud's most famous cases. Alongside the case history of...

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud is a groundbreaking philosophical and psychological treatise that delves into the complex relationship between individual psyche and societal expectations. In this influential work, Freud grapples with the perpetual struggle between man's quest for personal happiness and the restrictive demands of civilized society. He meticulously examines how human beings cope with such dichotomies, exploring...

Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionised our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and Its Discontents, he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers, 'civilised' sexual morality, he asks: does repression compromise our chances of happiness? Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and...

Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this collectible, hard-back edition of The Interpretation of Dreams provides an accessible and insightful edition of this important work of psychology. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams introduced his ground-breaking theory of the unconscious and explored how interpreting dreams can reveal the true nature of humanity. Regarded as Freud's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud published a controversial and groundbreaking theory. Our dreams, he proposed, are as complex and multifaceted as human nature itself, and understanding the unconscious mind...

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolise? First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives. Delving into theories of manifest...

The Theme of the Three Caskets explores a profound insight: "It is in vain that an old man yearns for the love of a woman as he had it first from his mother." In some of the most densely packed pages that Freud ever wrote, the founder of psychoanalysis demonstrates, through literary, mythical, and folktale examples, the extraordinary way that...

Freud 'is destined to remain among us as the most influential of 20th-century sages' — New York Times One of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's most prominent ideas was that of the id, the ego, and the super-ego—the three main factors behind the workings of the human mind. Freud claimed these components of the human psyche controlled all processes of personality,...

Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers This collection focuses on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. It includes his papers on metapsychology, applied psychoanalysis, and technique. Within these broader categories are subjects...

Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of ageing), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive...

One of 15 volumes in this series, this title is part of a plan to generate non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, extending beyond the institutional and clinical market. An Outline of Psychoanalysis presents material to the reader in an alternative way and contains introductory lectures on psychoanalysis, as well as an outline of psychoanalysis itself.

Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud is his most famous work and one of the most renowned books in modern European history, now published as a Penguin Modern Classic. Through a detailed examination of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud uncovered a radical new approach to exploring the unconscious mind. He recognised that dreams represent a conflict and compromise between conscious...