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This clear and accessible guide provides an essential introduction for anyone interested in Sigmund Freud, his life and ideas, and the continuing importance of his work.
List of contents
List of figures Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Pre-psychoanalytic Freud 1. Childhood and youth 2. Talking cure 3. Resistance and repression 4. Repressed abuse 5. Wishful fantasy Conclusions to Part I Part II: Unconscious-conscious dynamics 6. Dreams 7. Freudian slips 8. Jokes 9. Sex Conclusions to Part II Part III: Psychoanalytic case studies 10. Dora’s dreams 11. Hans’s phobia 12. The rat man’s obsession 13. Schreber’s schizophrenia 14. The wolf man’s nightmare Conclusions to Part III Part IV: Consolidating psychoanalysis 15. Freud vs. Jung 16. Sex and repression 17. Freudian symbols 18. More about sex 19. Symptom formation 20. Psychoanalytic treatment Conclusions to Part IV Part V: War and its psychoanalytic aftermath 21. Mourning and melancholia 22. Trauma and the death instinct 23. Oedipus, castration, penis envy 24. Id-ego-superego Conclusions to Part V Part VI: Beyond clinicalpsychoanalysis 25. Art, literature, film 26. Anthropology 27. Religion 28. Sociology 29. Gender politics 30. Racism Conclusions to Part VI Glossary References Index
About the author
Janet Sayers is emeritus professor of psychoanalytic psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury where she also works as a clinical psychologist for the National Health Service. Her previous Routledge books include Art, Psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes: A Biography; Freud’s Art: Psychoanalysis Retold; and Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams.
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This clear and accessible guide provides an essential introduction for anyone interested in Sigmund Freud, his life and ideas, and the continuing importance of his work.
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'An enjoyable and informative introduction to Freud’s work, illustrated with pithy examples of his own reasoning which artfully encourages the reader to learn more about psychoanalysis’s founding theorist and practitioner.' – Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and many other books,most recently In Therapy: The Unfolding Story
'This book works through the fascinating string of ideas which Freud produced in trying to find access to the hidden unconscious area of the mind by which we all live. With this introductory text Janet Sayers provides comprehensive coverage of the many areas of human life and experience considered by Freud including his false starts, detours, and ways in which both he and his followers addressed issues in developmental and abnormal psychology as well as in the arts, social sciences, and in religion too.' – Bob Hinshelwood, psychoanalyst and emeritus professor, University of Essex
