Teach Yourself Freud

by Snowden, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780071472746
• ISBN10: 0071472746
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-11
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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