
Freud--The Key Ideas: A Teach Yourself Guide
by Snowden, Ruth-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Meet the author | p. viii |
Only got a minute? | p. x |
Only got five minutes? | p. xii |
Only got ten minutes? | p. xvi |
Introduction | p. xxii |
Freud's life and career | p. 1 |
Freud's early life | p. 1 |
Vienna and the society in which Freud lived | p. 4 |
A brief outline of Freud's career | p. 5 |
Freud's private life and personality | p. 10 |
Freud's early work | p. 17 |
Freud's medical training | p. 17 |
Scientific research | p. 19 |
Hysteria and hypnosis | p. 20 |
Nineteenth-century scientific and moral thinking | p. 25 |
Freud's first ideas about the unconscious | p. 29 |
The beginnings of psychoanalysis | p. 36 |
The crucial decade | p. 36 |
The repression of sexual ideas | p. 37 |
The seduction theory | p. 38 |
The pressure technique | p. 40 |
The free-association technique | p. 41 |
Transference | p. 42 |
Freud's self-analysis | p. 44 |
The analysis of Dora | p. 47 |
The interpretation of dreams | p. 52 |
Why dreams are important in psychoanalysis | p. 52 |
Dreams as wish fulfilment | p. 55 |
Dream mechanisms | p. 58 |
Methods of dream interpretation | p. 63 |
Freudian symbols | p. 65 |
Origins of dreams | p. 67 |
Exploring the unconscious | p. 70 |
The divisions of the mind | p. 70 |
The theory of the unconscious | p. 72 |
The pleasure principle and the reality principle | p. 75 |
Parapraxis, the famous Freudian slip | p. 78 |
Jokes and the unconscious | p. 84 |
Sexual theories | p. 88 |
Freud attacks current thinking | p. 88 |
Sexual deviations | p. 91 |
Infantile sexuality | p. 96 |
The struggles of puberty | p. 99 |
Going back to childhood | p. 106 |
Psychosexual development | p. 106 |
Infantile amnesia | p. 108 |
The oral stage | p. 111 |
The anal stage | p. 112 |
The phallic stage | p. 115 |
The Oedipus complex | p. 116 |
The latency stage | p. 120 |
The genital stage | p. 121 |
Seeking an adult identity | p. 124 |
Freud's new model of the mind | p. 124 |
The id | p. 126 |
The ego | p. 127 |
The super-ego | p. 128 |
Anxiety | p. 131 |
Defence mechanisms | p. 132 |
Narcissism | p. 139 |
Mourning and melancholia | p. 140 |
Instincts | p. 141 |
Eros and Thanatos | p. 142 |
Character | p. 144 |
Freud and society | p. 147 |
Civilization | p. 147 |
Religion | p. 149 |
Thoughts about war | p. 155 |
Art and literature | p. 157 |
Psychoanalysis | p. 163 |
The process of psychoanalysis | p. 163 |
Some of Freud's own cases | p. 165 |
Early beginnings of the psychoanalytic movement | p. 169 |
Rifts in the psychoanalytic movement | p. 171 |
Some famous followers of Freud | p. 175 |
Psychoanalysis today | p. 180 |
Glossary | p. 186 |
Taking it further | p. 192 |
Timeline of important events in Freud's life | p. 192 |
Places to visit | p. 194 |
A list of Freud's most important works | p. 195 |
Further reading | p. 195 |
Useful websites | p. 199 |
Index | p. 200 |
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