The Interpretation of Dreams and Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Couverture souple

Freud, Sigmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781395217 ISBN 13 : 9781781395219

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2015

Synopsis

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the human mind has been studied. The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) is a seminal work; in it, Freud seeks to show how analysis of dreams reveals symbols-keys to the workings of the unconscious mind. Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) is an important turning point in Freud's thought, as he argues that human life is not only ruled by the creative drive for pleasure, but also by the struggle against destruction and death.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this volume I have attempted to expound the methods and results of dream-interpretation; and in so doing I do not think I have overstepped the boundary of neuro-pathological science. For the dream proves on psychological investigation to be the first of a series of abnormal psychic formations, a series whose succeeding members - the hysterical phobias, the obsessions, the delusions - must, for practical reasons, claim the attention of the physician. The dream, as we shall see, has no title to such practical importance, but for that very reason its theoretical value as a typical formation is all the greater, and the physician who cannot explain the origin of dream-images will strive in vain to understand the phobias and the obsessive and delusional ideas, or to influence them by therapeutic methods. But the very context to which our subject owes its importance must be held responsible for the deficiencies of the following chapters. The abundant lacunae in this exposition represent so many points of contact at which the problem of dream-formation is linked up with the more comprehensive problems of psycho-pathology; problems which cannot be treated in these pages, but which, if time and powers suffice and if further material presents itself, may be elaborated elsewhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781395217
• ISBN 13: 9781781395219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 462
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• Personne responsable: non disponible