Teach Yourself Freud,9780071472746

Teach Yourself Freud

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071472746
ISBN10: 0071472746
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-11
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary

Learn about the man called "The father of psychoanalysis"From Freud's upbringing and early work through his ingenious and revolutionary creation of psychoanalysis, you will learn about dream interpretation, the unconscious, the psychology of society, and his controversial theories, including the Oedipus Complex and penis envy.Ideal for students, teachers, or anyone curious about this remarkable man,Teach Yourself Freudmakes his ideas easy to understand with overviews, summaries, and illustrations.

Author Biography

Ruth Snowden is an experienced freelance writer specializing in esoteric psychology.

Table of Contents

introduction ix
01 Freud's life and career 1(13)
Freud's early life
2(2)
Vienna and the society in which Freud lived
4(1)
a brief outline of Freud's career
5(3)
Freud's private life and personality
8(5)
summary
13(1)
02 Freud's early work 14(16)
Freud's medical training
15(1)
scientific research
16(1)
hysteria and hypnosis
17(4)
nineteeth-century scientific and moral thinking
21(4)
Freud's first ideas about the unconscious
25(3)
summary
28(2)
03 the beginnings of psychoanalysis 30(13)
the crucial decade
31(1)
the repression of sexual ideas
31(1)
the seduction theory
32(1)
the pressure technique
33(2)
the free-association technique
35(1)
transference
36(1)
Freud's self-analysis
37(3)
the analysis of Dora
40(2)
summary
42(1)
04 the interpretation of dreams 43(15)
why dreams are important in psychoanalysis
44(2)
dreams as wish fulfilment
46(3)
dream mechanisms
49(3)
methods of dream interpretation
52(2)
Freudian symbols
54(1)
origins of dreams
55(2)
summary
57(1)
05 exploring the unconscious 58(15)
the divisions of the mind
59(1)
the theory of the unconscious
60(2)
the pleasure principle and the reality principle
62(3)
parapraxis, the famous Freudian slip
65(5)
jokes and the unconscious
70(2)
summary
72(1)
06 sexual theories 73(14)
Freud attacks current thinking
74(2)
sexual deviations
76(4)
infantile sexuality
80(2)
the struggles of puberty
82(4)
summary
86(1)
07 going back to childhood 87(15)
psychosexual development
88(1)
infantile amnesia
89(2)
the oral stage
91(1)
the anal stage
92(3)
the phallic stage
95(1)
the Oedipus complex
96(3)
the latency stage
99(1)
the genital stage
100(1)
summary
101(1)
08 seeking an adult identity 102(18)
Freud's new model of the mind
103(1)
The id
104(1)
The ego
105(3)
anxiety
108(1)
defence mechanisms
109(6)
narcissism
115(1)
mourning and melancholia
115(1)
instincts
116(1)
Eros and Thanatos
117(1)
character
118(1)
summary
119(1)
09 Freud and society 120(13)
civilization
121(2)
religion
123(4)
thoughts about war
127(2)
art and literature
129(3)
summary
132(1)
10 psychoanalysis 133(20)
the process of psychoanalysis
134(1)
some of Freud's own cases
135(3)
early beginnings of the psychoanalytic movement
138(2)
rifts in the psychoanalytic movement
140(3)
some famous followers of Freud
143(5)
psychoanalysis today
148(3)
summary
151(2)
glossary 153(4)
taking it further 157(16)
timeline of important events in Freud's life
159(4)
places to visit
163(2)
a list of Freud's most important works
165(2)
further reading
167(4)
useful websites
171(2)
index 173

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