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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 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And Freud's extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicist's naïve pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.

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Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I' he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as A Religious Experience and The Future of an Illusion continue earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion excavates the roots of religion and racism, which he concludes are inextricably intertwined.This remarkable collection reveals Freud not only at his most radically pessimistic, but also at his most personally courageous - engaging with his own adherences, his own antecedents, his own identity.

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

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Ninguna teoría acerca del funcionamiento y estructura de la mente ha ejercido tanta influencia ni ha adquirido un estatus tan preponderante como la doctrina psicoanalítica, cuyas categorías y explicaciones no tardaron en convertirse en núcleo de un modo radicalmente nuevo de entender la realidad psíquica que ha marcado de forma notable el siglo XX. Obra cuya publicación produjo en su día un auténtico escándalo social y académico, ?Tres ensayos sobre teoría sexual? es una de las mejores exposiciones de las ideas de Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) acerca de las tradicionalmente consideradas aberraciones sexuales ?desviaciones respecto al objeto de la libido (inversión, pederastia, bestialismo) y a su finalidad (transgresiones anatómicas, fetichismo, sadismo, masoquismo)?, así como respecto a la sexualidad infantil.

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Publicado en 1923, ?El yo y el ello? ?trabajo en el que Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) comenzó a dar relevancia a las relaciones que de forma dialéctica mantienen entre sí el yo, el super-yo y el ello, idea que acabaría constituyendo uno de los fundamentos de su doctrina psicoanalítica? supuso un profundo viraje en el pensamiento del médico vienés y dio paso a lo que se considera su periodo de madurez. Completan el volumen otros ensayos de metapsicología, entre los que sobresale Inhibición, síntoma y angustia, considerado por Ernest Jones la contribución clínica más valiosa de Freud en la postguerra.

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Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized 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; 'civilized' sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise our chances of happiness?Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.

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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 is key to revealing our true hopes and desires. Highly engaging and compelling, Freud’s research explores dreams and nightmares of every kind, including his own. First published in 1900, The Interpretation of Dreams is considered by many to be Freud’s most significant work, helping to establish his reputation as the founder of psychoanalysis and continuing to fascinate readers today.

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Ninguna teoría acerca del funcionamiento y estructura de la mente ha ejercido tanta influencia ni ha adquirido un estatus tan preponderante como la doctrina psicoanalítica, cuyas categorías y explicaciones no tardaron en convertirse en núcleo de un modo radicalmente nuevo de entender la realidad psíquica que ha marcado de forma notable el mundo moderno. " Escritos sobre la histeria " incluye dos trabajos de Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) (La etiología de la histeria y Estudio comparativo de las parálisis motrices orgánicas e histéricas) publicados a finales del siglo XIX, algunos agregados a su libro clásico sobre esta patología ( " La histeria " , en esta misma colección) y el célebre historial clínico de la joven Dora (Análisis fragmentario de una histeria), que figura entre las patografías fundamentales del creador de la terapia psicoanalítica.

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Ninguna teoría acerca del funcionamiento y estructura de la mente ha ejercido tanta influencia ni ha adquirido un estatus tan preponderante como la doctrina psicoanalítica, cuyas categorías y explicaciones no tardaron en convertirse en núcleo de un modo radicalmente nuevo de entender la realidad psíquica que ha marcado de forma notable el mundo moderno. Los quince trabajos que integran estos ?Ensayos sobre la vida sexual y la teoría de las neurosis?, ordenados en un solo conjunto por Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), estudian el origen sexual de las neurosis, el papel represor de las instituciones culturales sobre el instinto, la bisexualidad como estructura congénita del hombre, el complejo de Edipo, etcétera.

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: El libro de bolsilloNinguna teoría acerca del funcionamiento y estructura de la mente ha ejercido tanta influencia ni ha adquirido un estatus tan preponderante como la doctrina psicoanalítica, cuyas categorías y explicaciones no tardaron en convertirse en núcleo de un modo radicalmente nuevo de entender la realidad psíquica que ha marcado el mundo moderno. Dividida en dos volúmenes en la presente edición, La interpretación de los sueños desempeñó un papel decisivo dentro de ese enorme esfuerzo de subversión de valores y de innovación teórica. Escrita entre 1895 y 1899, es la primera obra en la que Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) esbozó con rigor y claridad las líneas generales de sus hipótesis y sus métodos. Esta nueva edición reintegra la distribución original de la obra y traslada el importante ensayo complementario titulado Los sueños al segundo volumen.

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Libro de combate escrito entre 1916 y 1917, "Introducción al psicoanálisis" es una obra en la que Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), en plena madurez, trata de romper el cerco de hostilidad y silencio que lo rodea para popularizar las ideas centrales de la concepción psicoanalítica. Si la primera sección de la obra está dedicada a los actos fallidos ?objeto ya de la arención de freud en Psicopatología de la vida cotidiana, presente en esta misma colección?, la segunda vuelve sobre el dominio de los sueños, mientras que la tercera y última se ocupa de los fenómenos y síntomas neuróticos.

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Los descubrimientos de Sigmund Freud, controvertidos desde su mismísimo origen, han ejercido una influencia fundamental en el mundo que nos rodea. Conceptos como el psicoanálisis, la represión, el inconsciente o incluso el complejo de Edipo han entra

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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 human desire.In the famous case study of the eighteen-year-old 'Dora', we see Freud at work, both putting into practice and testing his sexual theories that were to change the modern world.

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This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness?

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The Interpretation of Dreams is a seminal work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freud’s impressive output. Published in 1899 but revised by Freud himself many times, it outlines his theories on the unconscious and dream symbolism. Though superseded by subsequent developments and research, it retains its place as a hugely influential and significant opus. This new deluxe edition uses A.A. Brill’s 1913 translation of the third edition, with a new introduction by expert Dr Richard Stevens, who discusses the context, reception, influence, importance and merits or otherwise of Freud’s text and Brill’s translation – truly one of the most influential, if controversial, Great Works that Shape Our World. FLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books drawing on ancient, medieval and modern writing. Offering a fund of essential knowledge, and spell-binding stories it satisfies every facet of human interest: scientific, philosophical, sociological, romantic, dramatic and mysterious.

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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. Many 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.

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Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for desires that have never found expression. Much more than this, however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of the most haunting writers of the modern age.

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