The Psychopathology Of Everday Life

Informationen zum Autor Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century. Klappentext Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and remembering in their everyday life, and reveals what it is that they betray about the existence of a sub-text or subliminal motive to our conscious actions. As he explains, most of these slips tend of be of a relatively anodyne nature, but some are a little more sinister, particularly those where pride or thwarted love are concerned...

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• Authors: Andrea Bell, Sigmund Freud, Paul Keegan
• Assisted by: Paul Keegan (Introduction), Keegan Paul (Introduction), Andrea Bell (Translation), Andrea L. Bell (Translation), Anthea Bell (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2002
• EAN: 9780141184036
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118403-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, HISTORY / Social History, The self, ego, identity, personality, Abnormal psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social and cultural history