Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis
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Few works in the history of modern thought have reshaped the human sciences as profoundly as Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, a magisterial series of twenty-eight lectures originally delivered at the University of Vienna between 1915 and 1917, in which Freud systematically presents the foundational principles of psychoanalytic theory to a general audience. With characteristic intellectual precision, the work chronicles three great territories of the unconscious mind: the psychology of everyday errors and parapraxes (the famous Freudian slips), the interpretation of dreams, and the theory of neurosis — constructing, lecture by lecture, a revolutionary architecture of the human psyche. Written in an accessible yet rigorously argued style, Freud adopts the voice of a confident lecturer addressing sceptical listeners, making the text feel remarkably intimate and alive even a century after its composition. The work stands as both a brilliant scientific argument and a literary achievement, illustrating how repression, wish-fulfilment, and the mechanisms of the unconscious govern behaviour in ways the conscious mind cannot perceive. This Penguin edition, part of the celebrated Pelican Freud Library, introduced generations of English-language readers to the man whose ideas permanently altered our understanding of what it means to be human — and the questions it raises about the hidden depths of the self remain as urgent and unsettling as ever.
Author: Sigmund Freud
Format: Paperback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works in the history of modern thought have reshaped the human sciences as profoundly as Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, a magisterial series of twenty-eight lectures originally delivered at the University of Vienna between 1915 and 1917, in which Freud systematically presents the foundational principles of psychoanalytic theory to a general audience. With characteristic intellectual precision, the work chronicles three great territories of the unconscious mind: the psychology of everyday errors and parapraxes (the famous Freudian slips), the interpretation of dreams, and the theory of neurosis — constructing, lecture by lecture, a revolutionary architecture of the human psyche. Written in an accessible yet rigorously argued style, Freud adopts the voice of a confident lecturer addressing sceptical listeners, making the text feel remarkably intimate and alive even a century after its composition. The work stands as both a brilliant scientific argument and a literary achievement, illustrating how repression, wish-fulfilment, and the mechanisms of the unconscious govern behaviour in ways the conscious mind cannot perceive. This Penguin edition, part of the celebrated Pelican Freud Library, introduced generations of English-language readers to the man whose ideas permanently altered our understanding of what it means to be human — and the questions it raises about the hidden depths of the self remain as urgent and unsettling as ever.