Papers On Psycho-Analysis

by Ernest Jones

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Genres: Psychoanalysis

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Alfred Ernest Jones was a neurologist and psychoanalyst, and Sigmund Freud’s official biographer. Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world where, as President of both the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association in the 1920s and 1930s, he exercised a formative influence in the establishment of its organisations, institutions and publications.

Reviews

[Roberto Yoed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decided to read more psychoanalysis, I picked this book to refresh my memory about Freud's works.

It gets the job done, and in a general level, it does it really good. But it's also true this work misses the most dense and abstract concepts of Freud (such as the infamous 'drives' and his anthropological studies). That said, I think there wasn't a better text to reintroduce myself to psychoanalysis.

During the whole reading I had my psychoanalysis notebook to ensure Ernest was saying the truth (reminds me of how I read the marxists introductions with my marxist notebook) and, as it usually happens, authors make mistakes.

Ernest ain't no exception and his transference papers are superficial. Also, as it happens usually with the first circle of psychoanalysts, he is pretty classist.

Overall, a great reintroduction that has some errors (in my opinion) but an excellent recount nonetheless.