Freud--The Key Ideas: A Teach Yourself Guide

by Snowden, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780071740029
• ISBN10: 0071740023
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Get into the head of FreudReading the complete works of Sigmund Freud would take more time than most of us have to spare.Freud--the Key Ideascondenses all the information you need about the life and work of the great man into one book. With clear explanations and examples drawn from Freud's own cases you will soon have a solid understanding of the main concepts, from psychosexual development to dream analysis. One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of Freud. Covers all the key ideas, from psychosexual development to dream analysis. Explains complex concepts in plain, simple terms. Includes details of famous cases like 'Anna O' and the 'Wolf Man.'Topics include: Freud's life and career; Freud's early work and influences; The beginnings of psychoanalysis; The interpretation of dreams; Exploring the unconscious; Sexual theories; Going back to childhood; Seeking an adult identity; Freud and society; Psychoanalysis; Glossary; Taking it further

Author Biography

Ruth Snowden Ruth Snowden is an expert in esoteric psychology. She has applied this expertise to a wide range of psychology books and to her successful and unique brand of fiction.

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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