Obras completas. Vol 21. El porvenir de una ilusión; El malestar en la cultura; y otras obras 1927-31

by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor), José Luis Etcheverry (Translator)

The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents and Other Works (1927 - 1931)

This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in English

Includes:

The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Civilization and its Discontents (1929)
Shorter Writings (1926-31)

Genres: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction, Science

308 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Dr. Sigismund Freud, M.D. (University of Vienna)—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.

Reviews

[Pato W · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mi primer acercamiento a un tomo completo de la obra Freudiana fué este. Presenta a un Freud más maduro que se permite explorar más allá de las bases que planteó en los primeros tomos arribando a temas diversos como una crítica a Dostoievski o la religión. Todo sin perder su toque. Su calidad varió entre escritos.

[chiara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Den Himmel überlassen wir
Den Engeln und den Spatzen.

[Il Cielo abbandoniamolo
Agli angeli e ai passeri.]

[Junne · Rating 5 out of 5]

no apto para creyentes

[Davide Di Tullio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nella consueta loquacità e chiarezza a cui ci ha abituati Freud, viene esposta un interessante interpretazione psicanalista di religione e civiltà. Interessante la proiezione del tripartizione dei concetti freudiani di es, io e super-io sull'analisi tema delle due opere. il Leit motiv è sempre lo stesso. Il conflitto tra le pulsioni che hanno sede nell'inconscio e la cortina morale del super-io, conflitto che spesso sfocia nelle nevrosi e nei sensi di colpa. Riuscirà l'amore per il prossimo che è fondamento stesso della civiltà ad arginare l'auto-distruttività indotta dalla stessa?

[Shane Avery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two remarkable works. Their approximation to Truth really isn't what gives them their value. Freud succeeds, better than any other intellectual I've ever read, at divorcing meaning from human existence. It's an altogether scary enterprise, for the upshot of Freud's thought is that human aggression, as a manifestation of an immortal death instinct, is an ineradicable feature of human existence. Primitive man is always threatened by unrestrained force, while civilized man, through the repression of his libidinal and aggressive urges, lives in a constant state of anxiety and self-loathing. Since civilization restricts the aggressive nature of man, his super-ego redirects that aggression on to the ego -- abusing the human mind with guilt and shame. Altruism in this scheme is simply hyper internal abuse. These works are complicated, brilliant, and, most of all, chilling.

[Cristian de Lima]

Livro incrivelmente interessante que discute a natureza da humanidade e seu confronto com as normas sociais. Garante grandes reflexões a cerca de si e dos outros. Indispensável a quem cursa psicologia.