The Standard Edition of the complete works of the father of psychoanalysis – the only definitive paperback edition on the market. Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey; in collaboration with Anna Freud; assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson.
Dr. Sigismund Freud (later changed to Sigmund) was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created an entirely new approach to the understanding of the human personality. He is regarded as one of the most influential—and controversial—minds of the 20th century.
In 1873, Freud began to study medicine at the University of Vienna. After graduating, he worked at the Vienna General Hospital. He collaborated with Josef Breuer in treating hysteria by the recall of painful experiences under hypnosis. In 1885, Freud went to Paris as a student of the neurologist Jean Charcot. On his return to Vienna the following year, Freud set up in private practice, specialising in nervous and brain disorders. The same year he married Martha Bernays, with whom he had six children.
Freud developed the theory that humans have an unconscious in which sexual and aggressive impulses are in perpetual conflict for supremacy with the defences against them. In 1897, he began an intensive analysis of himself. In 1900, his major work 'The Interpretation of Dreams' was published in which Freud analysed dreams in terms of unconscious desires and experiences.
In 1902, Freud was appointed Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Vienna, a post he held until 1938. Although the medical establishment disagreed with many of his theories, a group of pupils and followers began to gather around Freud. In 1910, the International Psychoanalytic Association was founded with Carl Jung, a close associate of Freud's, as the president. Jung later broke with Freud and developed his own theories.
After World War One, Freud spent less time in clinical observation and concentrated on the application of his theories to history, art, literature and anthropology. In 1923, he published 'The Ego and the Id', which suggested a new structural model of the mind, divided into the 'id, the 'ego' and the 'superego'.
In 1933, the Nazis publicly burnt a number of Freud's books. In 1938, shortly after the Nazis annexed Austria, Freud left Vienna for London with his wife and daughter Anna.
Freud had been diagnosed with cancer of the jaw in 1923, and underwent more than 30 operations. He died of cancer on 23 September 1939.
Quando a professora de Psicologia da Educação passa apenas um capítulo, mas você resolve ler o livro todo. Sem dúvidas, uma das leituras mais desafiadoras, densas e demoradas da minha vida, rs. Em contrapartida, também uma das leituras mais ricas: me ajudou bastante durante o meu estágio e acrescentou bastante na minha formação pessoal
El libro se compone de algunos fragmentos de conferencias y cartas que realizó Freud y que tienen en común esclarecer algunos puntos del psicoanálisis, que aún en la actualidad ocurre, que se volvieron un prejuicio en aquel entonces. Las cinco conferencias es la introducción básica de la teoría psicoanalítica, donde aborda la teoría de la represión y la sustitución en el síntoma en diferentes medios y el aclarar la relación de la teoría con la sexualidad, emprendiendo de buena manera que la sexualidad no se reduce a lo genital. No obstante, algunos otros ensayos breves se le hace una crítica dura por la imposición de interpretaciones que justamente recaen en lo genital,tal como ocurre en los dos textos que elaboró para la conferencia sobre la Psicología del amor. Otro texto de mucha ayuda es "Psicoanálisis silvestre" que nos advierte sobre pseudo psicoanalistas o médicos que recurren a la teoría freudiana para aclarar puntos prejuiciosos que desgraciadamente se convirtieron en consejos médicos