Introduzione al narcisismo/Inibizione sintomo e angoscia

by Sigmund Freud

L’opera di Freud è proposta nell’unica edizione integrale e di riferimento, diretta da Cesare Musatti, padre fondatore della psicoanalisi italiana. Questa edizione digitale mantiene gli stessi elevati standard scientifici e redazionali dell’edizione cartacea, che ha costruito il lessico della psicoanalisi nella nostra lingua.

In questi saggi, considerati tra i suoi lavori teorici più importanti, Sigmund Freud affronta due questioni cruciali: la teoria della libido e lo stato affettivo dell’angoscia. Sono due scritti nati in periodi e temperie differenti: se nell’Introduzione al narcisismo (1914) il padre della psicoanalisi, dopo la rottura con Adler e Jung, polemizza con i suoi discepoli, tornando a riaffermare la primazia delle pulsioni sessuali nell’indagine psichica; negli studi sull’angoscia, che risalgono al 1925, Freud scarta definitivamente la teoria che leggeva gli stati ansiosi come trasformazione della libido, e apre una nuova via interpretativa leggendo l’angoscia come una reazione dell’Io di fronte a una situazione di pericolo, di volta in volta, reale o nevrotico.

Genres: Psychology

164 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2013

About the author

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.