La mayor obra de Sigmund Freud. Nueva edición 2020 La interpretración de los sueños es un intensa y penetrante obra ensayística que Sigmund Freud escribiría a finales del siglo XIX. Considerado por muchos como la mejor obra de Freud, este ensayo se constituye como una obra maestra de la historia de la psicología, el psicoanálisis y las ciencias sociales, que señala el punto de salida de la teoría freudiana del análisis de los sueños. __________ Literatura Pública es un proyecto para la difusión de grandes obras de nuestra literatura, de dominio público, que busca poder ofrecer libros a precios populares; con actividad realizada en España, rigiéndose por la legislación española y con recursos utilizados obtenidos de Freepik.
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.
Muy interesante e históricamente es un libro de lectura obligada por la introducción que hace al significado de los sueños, el carácter de los mismos, e incluso los términos relativos al pensamiento inconsciente. Pero el cómo está escrito es lo que no terminó de gustarme. Muy complicado para un lector casual y muy desenfadado para el público académico. Me pregunto para qué tipo de lector fue escrito. A pesar de eso, lo disfruté.