Freud: Great Thinkers on Modern Life

Great Thinkers

by Brett Kahr

In a new and accessible look at the philosophy of Sigmund Freud, learn how the great thinker's ideas are still relevant today Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, repression and the meaning of dreams and the clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Here you will find insights from his greatest works.

The School of Life series takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2015

Reviews

[Engin Türkgeldi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Freud ile ilk kez tanışacaklar için bir giriş kitabı olabilir ancak. Freud'a aşina olanlar için oldukça yüzeysel ve basit.

[Kirk Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you proposed a genre of books that take harmless approaches to controversial topics, I might accuse you of snark, but this book shows such a thing can be done with value. On the first page, Kahr sets the reader up for a fight by remembering himself in Freshman Week at university, intimidated by a snarling professor of ancient Greek, who states, 'Fifty per cent of everything that Freud wrote is completely wrong...and the other fifty per cent is just plain common sense.' His freshman self attempted to argue, to no avail, and in this book it becomes apparent that the older self, with some wisdom, has chosen not to engage. The result is a peaceable book which, in this aspect at least, is curiously effective, even though I was hoping for something of sterner stuff.

A short book of almost random order, it surveys some of Freud's arguably more valuable ideas, with copious and very readable passages from Freud himself. These passages are so readable that often I wondered what I was doing reading this book instead of just books by Freud. But Freud is someone you sit down and read intently for extended periods, and this book functions well as a bathroom diversion, or something to read when waking up or falling asleep, when one has not the time and/or brainpower to follow extensively developed thoughts.

The author's own writing style is solid, though not so particularly literate as Jung's or Freud's, and he does occasionally have some perspectives, especially on Freud as a humanist, that I am still pondering. I would have liked to have seen this developed further, but in the end this book -- and perhaps this series -- was conceived as a slight thing, and I suppose I am asking it to against its nature.

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[macbeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kendisi de bilimsel anlamda Freud'un takipçisi olan yazar, sekiz bölümlük derli toplu bir çerçevede hayat derslerini Freudyen düşünce ekseninde sunmuş.Bazı bölümlerin sonunda yazarın konuyu bağlamak üzere sunduğu tespitler ayrıntılı tartışılmadığı için havada kalmış.Kitabın sonundaki Freud okuma listesi yardımcı nitelikte.Freud okumaya yeni başlayacaklara kitabı öneririm.

[Hannah Antrican · Rating 2 out of 5]

Provides a good overview of Freud’s work but the lack of criticism of Freud’s theories was a little startling. The author praised him many times so if this was your very first introduction to Freud, you would probably not have a good understanding of just how damn weird he was

[Zelal Ay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Konsept ve fikir olarak beğendim. Freud'un çalışmalarından yapılan çevirilerde biraz anlayamama sorunu yaşamam dışında keyifli bir okuma oldu

[Betül]

Son derece basit ve yüzeysel bir anlatımla Freud’un öğretilerinin tanıtılması adına yazılmış bilgi verici bir kitap.

[Adnan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Freud'u pek sevmiyorum ama içeriğinde ilgi çekici kısımlar vardı. Özellikle Freud'un yazdıklarını yazarın bir kez daha açıklaması benim için daha anlaşılır kılmıştı, bu açıdan çok beğendim.

[beng · Rating 1 out of 5]

freud sus ya

[Zeynep Kamis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Freud’a bir yerden baslamak, calismalarinin ana hatlariyla ne oldugunu ogrenmek isteyenler icin cok yerinde alintilarla dolu, akici ve okunmasi keyifli bir kitap olmus

[Elif Asa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Freud’ a giriş olarak okunabilir. Çok kısa bir kitap.