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Author of numerous books on Freud, including a highly regarded biography ( Freud, LJ 7/88), Gay offers the general reader a comprehensive survey of Freud's psychoanalytical, political, and philosophical writings. Preceded by a meaty introduction that emphasizes Freud's commitment to science and reason, this single-volume work includes some 50 of Freud's texts, organized chronologically with headnotes. The selections range from case studies and theoretical discussions about dreams, anxiety, and anal eroticism to essays on lay analysis and religion as humankind's obsessional neurosis. Read sequentially, they allow readers to trace Freud's conceptual shift from a topographic theory of the mind to his structural theory of drives. A scholarly work for students and those wanting more than a cursory look.
- Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work. Most of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. The Freud Reader contains a full array of explanatory material:
a substantial general introduction a full chronology introductions to each selection a selected bibliography
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From the mid-1880s on, after foraging among a variety of medical subjects, Freud increasingly concentrated on mental illnesses. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Brilliant, IMPORTANT, Unintentionally Comic,
This review is from: Freud Reader (Paperback)
I like to think of Sigmund Freud as the Groucho Marx of socratic philosophers. This ikon's influence upon the surrealist movement in art is surely no coincidence. Read in the proper frame of mind, the essays and excerpts in this volume assume a zany, over-the-top circus quality akin to the deadpan black humor of Pynchon and Burroughs. Combine this High Comedy with the fact that every American you know explicitly or tacitly abuses a Freudian concept in one out of every ten sentences, and you've got more than enough reason to drag yourself away from the t.v. and read it. A nice feature of this volume is that Peter Gay points out Freud's anticipations and rebuttals of what the rising tide of increasingly shrill anti-Freudians are saying today. Careful review of this book will teach you that Freudian psychoanalysis is no more dead, and no more a candidate for death, than Platonic idealism.
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A review of Peter Gay's "The Freud Reader",
By Paul Doecke (Adelaide, SA Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Freud Reader (Paperback)
It is fair to say that "The Freud Reader" is the Freudian Bible...perfect for beginners and still useful for the scholarly. This book is perfect for those of us who have never studied Freud at a tertiary level. It supplies the reader with the relevant background information on the life of Freud in an objective but interesting manner.
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just a perfect book perfect for the beginner,
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This review is from: Freud Reader (Paperback)
Followers of Freud across the world should be greatful to Mr Gay for compiling such an enormous and elaborate volume on Sigmund Freud. I have not come across any book on Frued which is so comprehensive yet does not seem to drag on about trivial details. It is like having a converstaion with Freud, perhaps even better because you can skip and chose the subject at will. The book gives a complete run down on all the major and some minor works of Freud, some in the form of lectures for the novice while others are for beginners. It has something for every body. While not many will agree with Freud's prognosis on Da Vinci, Nabokov, Michealangelo etc., we should consider ourselves fortunate enought that soemone offered to traverse through the thought processes of these geniuses and tried to split open their hidden personalities. Until we find a better explanation of what drives humans towards homo sexuality or why success leads people towards melancholy and why do we get recurring dreams about failure or flight fanatasy, Sigmund Freud shall continue to occupy the mantle which is fit only for a 20th century prophet. To bring his work to light in an accessible form, we owe gratitude to Mr Gay
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