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The Wolfman
An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works (1917 - 1919)
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:
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (1914)
On Transformations of Instinct as Exemplified in Anal Eroticism (1917)
A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung Und Wahrheit (1917)
Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy (1918)
On the Teachings of Psycho-Analysis in Universities (1918)
'A Child is Being Beaten': A Contribution to the Study of the Origins of Sexual Perversions (1919)
Introduction to Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses (1919)
The 'Uncanny' (1919)
Preface to Reik's Ritual: Psycho-Analytic Studies (1919)
Shorter Writings (1919)
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:
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (1914)
On Transformations of Instinct as Exemplified in Anal Eroticism (1917)
A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung Und Wahrheit (1917)
Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy (1918)
On the Teachings of Psycho-Analysis in Universities (1918)
'A Child is Being Beaten': A Contribution to the Study of the Origins of Sexual Perversions (1919)
Introduction to Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses (1919)
The 'Uncanny' (1919)
Preface to Reik's Ritual: Psycho-Analytic Studies (1919)
Shorter Writings (1919)
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1919
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Sigmund Freud
4,422 books8,474 followersDr. 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.
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.
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January 1, 2016
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ― Sigmund Freud (not from The Wolfman though...)
Spoilers ahead, sorry... You have been warned!
In one of his first psychoanalyses, Sigmund Freud examines Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff, a Russian aristocrat from Odessa. In this evaluation of his patient's inability to have proper bowel movements, as well as his sullen attitude, Freud incorporates all elements that he is renowned for: catharsis, unconsciousness, sexuality (mostly incestual), and dream analysis (after which the book was titled). In his outré method, Freud delves into the analysand's past and eventual unconscious to uncover the roots of his physical and emotional state. Doing so, Freud discerns key stages in his patient's life, which would define his future wont, idiosyncrasies and physical defects.
At the age of 18 months, Sergei alleges to have experienced a primal scene; whereby his parents engaged in sodomy. Following this imperative event, Sergei conjectured that his mother was sick at the hands of his father, which she lamented multifarious times. This would be the genesis of his intestinal issues.
Following this event, at the age of about 3 and a half, his sister unexpectedly seduces him, fondling with his penis, informing him his maid had previously done so with the gardener. This culminates in his sexual awakening, whereupon he approaches his maid, whom threatens him with castration. This would be Sergei's point of nadir. In spite of the warning being declared by the maid, Sergei was frightened to be castrated at the hands of his father, which resulted in the notorious dream of 7 wolves in a walnut tree. In this hellish dream, one wolf is tailless; which alludes to the primal scene he witnessed, where his father's genitals disappeared whilst having coitus with his mother.
Freud concludes that the eery calmness of the wolves replaces the cathartic violence of his parents' sexual intercourse.
Eventually, becoming a theist, Sergei replaces God with the previous relationship he had with his father, and considers himself to be Jesus, yearning to be sexually satisfied at the hands of his father.
Yet, this torrent of information, deriving from such a short book is just the tip of the iceberg from such a tormenting book. This flummoxing, yet painfully realistic case, paints a portrait of a sadomasochistic and submissive man, still suffering at the hands of an infantile neurosis.
Spoilers ahead, sorry... You have been warned!
In one of his first psychoanalyses, Sigmund Freud examines Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff, a Russian aristocrat from Odessa. In this evaluation of his patient's inability to have proper bowel movements, as well as his sullen attitude, Freud incorporates all elements that he is renowned for: catharsis, unconsciousness, sexuality (mostly incestual), and dream analysis (after which the book was titled). In his outré method, Freud delves into the analysand's past and eventual unconscious to uncover the roots of his physical and emotional state. Doing so, Freud discerns key stages in his patient's life, which would define his future wont, idiosyncrasies and physical defects.
At the age of 18 months, Sergei alleges to have experienced a primal scene; whereby his parents engaged in sodomy. Following this imperative event, Sergei conjectured that his mother was sick at the hands of his father, which she lamented multifarious times. This would be the genesis of his intestinal issues.
Following this event, at the age of about 3 and a half, his sister unexpectedly seduces him, fondling with his penis, informing him his maid had previously done so with the gardener. This culminates in his sexual awakening, whereupon he approaches his maid, whom threatens him with castration. This would be Sergei's point of nadir. In spite of the warning being declared by the maid, Sergei was frightened to be castrated at the hands of his father, which resulted in the notorious dream of 7 wolves in a walnut tree. In this hellish dream, one wolf is tailless; which alludes to the primal scene he witnessed, where his father's genitals disappeared whilst having coitus with his mother.
Freud concludes that the eery calmness of the wolves replaces the cathartic violence of his parents' sexual intercourse.
Eventually, becoming a theist, Sergei replaces God with the previous relationship he had with his father, and considers himself to be Jesus, yearning to be sexually satisfied at the hands of his father.
Yet, this torrent of information, deriving from such a short book is just the tip of the iceberg from such a tormenting book. This flummoxing, yet painfully realistic case, paints a portrait of a sadomasochistic and submissive man, still suffering at the hands of an infantile neurosis.
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August 15, 2019Freud arayış içerisinde ve baştan aşağı yeni bir kuram geliştirmek için gerken zemini de kendisine kendisi sağlıyor. Bunun için vaka üzerinden genel çıkarımlara varıp, daha sonra bu çıkarımlar üzerinden de tekrar vakaya dönerek, kişinin yaşadığı şeyleri bu çıkarımlarla ilişkilendirmeye çalışıyor. Yani cidden çetrefili bir süreç ve bu yüzden ulaşılan sonuçlar çok dolambaçlı ve şüpheli görünebiliyor.
Okurken Kurt Adamın fantezi ve takıntılarının sebepleri üzerine çıkarımlara değil de: Kurt Adam üzerinden açıklanan bastırma, yer değiştirme ve fantezi mekanizmalarına odaklanmak en faydalı okuma biçimi olur bence. Ki bu da gündelik yaşantı ve duygulanımlarımızı; edebiyat, sinema ve diğer sanat dallarında işleyen bazı süreçleri anlamaya bir adım daha yaklaştıracaktır bizi kesinlikle.
Okurken Kurt Adamın fantezi ve takıntılarının sebepleri üzerine çıkarımlara değil de: Kurt Adam üzerinden açıklanan bastırma, yer değiştirme ve fantezi mekanizmalarına odaklanmak en faydalı okuma biçimi olur bence. Ki bu da gündelik yaşantı ve duygulanımlarımızı; edebiyat, sinema ve diğer sanat dallarında işleyen bazı süreçleri anlamaya bir adım daha yaklaştıracaktır bizi kesinlikle.
September 9, 2020
so doidinho .. coitado
March 30, 2024
Als een roman, passage over analyse van de droom door ze in stukken te hakken is prachtig om lezen
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February 5, 2023Om Freuds manier van denken te begrijpen moet men de ziektegeschiedenissen lezen.
January 18, 2013
Very, very, very odd...
January 22, 2023
reading this was a mistake, i thought i'd at least understand what fucked up logic he uses a bit better so i can spot it in other psych works, but he doesnt use any!! he just says shit!!
April 11, 2025
That guy was constipated because he was, unbeknownst to himself, homosexual and finally impregnated by his father.
October 3, 2018
D’habitude Freud et moi on s’entend bien, mais j’pense que ce texte est vraiment trop étrange...J’ai l’impression que tout était trop « poussé » et qu’il cherchait des bobos ou il n’y en avait pas. Tes autres textes sont meilleurs mon. Freud!
July 15, 2023
En este volumen se expone el caso del hombre de los lobos, paciente de Freud en la cual presentó algunas dificultades que tendrían relación con la estructura psicopatologica de su paciente: el paciente limítrofe. Freud intentaba clasificar como neurosis obsesiva, pero a la vez reconoce conflictos psíquicos de su paciente que no eran los propicios sobre aquella neurosis, tal como el distanciamiento afectivo de éste.
Otro texto que resalto de esta obra es "Lo Ominoso", concepto que analiza a partir del cuento de Hoffman "El arenero" para comprender esos complejos infantiles que cayeron bajo la represión y que nuevamente despiertan cuando se asocian con material similar. El análisis comprende lo familiar que incluye lo ominoso, es decir, si lo ominoso es el temor a lo desconocido, es porque eso desconocido tiene algo de familiar que revela a la luz lo íntimo de la persona. Lo Ominoso lo encontramos en nuestra vida diaria, en la psíquica. Con eventos o situaciones que aparentemente desconocemos y que en realidad tememos porque tienen algo de familiar con nosotros. Un gran texto para entender el género de horror y simultáneamente nuestra propia intimidad
Otro texto que resalto de esta obra es "Lo Ominoso", concepto que analiza a partir del cuento de Hoffman "El arenero" para comprender esos complejos infantiles que cayeron bajo la represión y que nuevamente despiertan cuando se asocian con material similar. El análisis comprende lo familiar que incluye lo ominoso, es decir, si lo ominoso es el temor a lo desconocido, es porque eso desconocido tiene algo de familiar que revela a la luz lo íntimo de la persona. Lo Ominoso lo encontramos en nuestra vida diaria, en la psíquica. Con eventos o situaciones que aparentemente desconocemos y que en realidad tememos porque tienen algo de familiar con nosotros. Un gran texto para entender el género de horror y simultáneamente nuestra propia intimidad
April 15, 2017
While I think that some of Freud's ideas are really interesting, and I very much enjoy discussing them in my theory class, this was just plain hard for me to read. Several other theorists completely capture my mind while I read them, Saussure, Barthes, Marx, but Freud didn't. To be far, this is theory. It isn't meant to entertain, but to make you think, and if you don't understand it then you haven't thought about it enough. So I'll blame this rating on myself, not Freud. I didn't like reading this and I didn't care to put the effort into it that would allow me to get more out of it. So, my bad. I don't really want to try again.
January 19, 2018
Siempre me gusto la psicología, quizá no tanto como para estudiarla, pero encontré estos libros que narran algunos de los casos mas resonantes de Freud.
Me lo lleve pensando que quizá no entendería del todo el texto, que habría mucha terminología especifica, pero la verdad que no, estuvo muy interesante, como relata las sesiones, las cosas que contaba el paciente, y sobre todo, la interpretación que hace del famoso sueño de los lobos del paciente.
Quizá no este de total acuerdo con sus métodos o conclusiones, pero nunca vamos a dejar de fascinarnos por el Dr Freud y sus técnicas.
Me lo lleve pensando que quizá no entendería del todo el texto, que habría mucha terminología especifica, pero la verdad que no, estuvo muy interesante, como relata las sesiones, las cosas que contaba el paciente, y sobre todo, la interpretación que hace del famoso sueño de los lobos del paciente.
Quizá no este de total acuerdo con sus métodos o conclusiones, pero nunca vamos a dejar de fascinarnos por el Dr Freud y sus técnicas.
April 20, 2020
açıkçası kitap bitince ne okudum lan ben az önce dedim. gerçekten şuanda adamın ulaştığı nihai sonucu buraya çatadanak diye yazsam hepiniz hassiktirgit lan ne kadar sapık birisin dersiniz. freud un pskianaliz olayını birazcık da abarttığını düşünüyorum. yani bir buçuk yaşındaki bir çocuğun annesi ve babasını sevişirken görmesinin bu kadar sapıkça sonuçlar doğuracağını düşünmek bence mantıksız. tamam başka şeyler de var tabikide. ancak ne bileyim altan...
July 8, 2013
Bazen sadece Oedipus Complex'i yâd etmek için Freud okunur, gibi bir izlenime kapılıyorum. Freud, dört yıl süren terapi seanslarında anılarından ve rüyalarından, hastasının çocukken maruz kaldığı cinsel tacizleri analiz ediyor. Gene "baba" dininin etrafında dönerek tabii.
November 27, 2014
The dream interpretation is hilarious - if it doesn't fit Freud's theories, the dream shows the opposite of what it seems to be saying until it does.
January 5, 2020
Very far fetched. Felt v confused through most of it :(
August 6, 2021
Freud was often called a witch doctor by his detractors, and it's easy to see why in The Wolfman, a collection of excerpts from A History of Infantile Neurosis. His theories are taboo, perverted, open-ended, and impossible to properly (and logically) follow. They're also often bluntly wrong. Nevertheless, something about Freud's writing has resonated with the greater culture. We owe a great deal to Freud's exploration of the unconscious and his articulation of our drives-- no matter how pseudo-scientific they may appear when closely scrutinized.
The Wolfman examines the life of a particularly troubled patient plagued by strange behaviours, neurosis, homosexuality (considered an illness at this time), and nightmares. This is accomplished by analyzing the male patient's childhood traumas and "sexual seductions." As with many of Freud's books, sexuality is at the center of nearly everything. This makes this reading a particularly uncomfortable experience, as sexual desire becomes the lingo-franca of nearly every relationship in the child's life. Sexual desire for the mother? yes. For the father? sure. For the maid? definitely. Didn't know what doggy-style was when you watched your parents having sex at the ripe old age of four? Well, that's why you have an attraction to things "anal."
What largely resonated with me was Freud's exploration of gender roles. Freud suspects that because the patient witnessed his mother being "pleasurably" "dominated" in the bedroom, and because his patient was young and "passive" he (the patient), therefore, identified with the mother and took on her feminine qualities in order to "seduce" his father and receive his love. It's all quite strange, but also, somehow, clear.
The Wolfman examines the life of a particularly troubled patient plagued by strange behaviours, neurosis, homosexuality (considered an illness at this time), and nightmares. This is accomplished by analyzing the male patient's childhood traumas and "sexual seductions." As with many of Freud's books, sexuality is at the center of nearly everything. This makes this reading a particularly uncomfortable experience, as sexual desire becomes the lingo-franca of nearly every relationship in the child's life. Sexual desire for the mother? yes. For the father? sure. For the maid? definitely. Didn't know what doggy-style was when you watched your parents having sex at the ripe old age of four? Well, that's why you have an attraction to things "anal."
What largely resonated with me was Freud's exploration of gender roles. Freud suspects that because the patient witnessed his mother being "pleasurably" "dominated" in the bedroom, and because his patient was young and "passive" he (the patient), therefore, identified with the mother and took on her feminine qualities in order to "seduce" his father and receive his love. It's all quite strange, but also, somehow, clear.
June 24, 2022
The Wolf Man.
I read this because it kept coming up and I hadn't read it. Finally when reading Lacan's essay on Verneinung, I decided to just read the thing.
It's among his most famous case studies, including Dora, Hans, the Rat Man. And it's quite a very readable essay. The Wolf Man, or this is what he has been known as now (Freud never refers to him this way as I can remember) has developed along with a phobia of wolves, an obsessional neurosis... what I think psychiatrists have come to label as OCD in DSM lingo. I'm not sure what factors current psychiatrists link this too, however, for Freud at this point in his thinking, which is prior to Beyond the Pleasure Principle (a turning point in his thought), he is still in dialogue with Adler, Jung and Ferenczi (at least in thought), and he is attributing the disturbances of the analysand to things such as psychosexual development (oral, anal and genital stages), the castration complex, and the primal scene.
Now that I have read this... I am interested in reading what Lacan has to say...
I read this because it kept coming up and I hadn't read it. Finally when reading Lacan's essay on Verneinung, I decided to just read the thing.
It's among his most famous case studies, including Dora, Hans, the Rat Man. And it's quite a very readable essay. The Wolf Man, or this is what he has been known as now (Freud never refers to him this way as I can remember) has developed along with a phobia of wolves, an obsessional neurosis... what I think psychiatrists have come to label as OCD in DSM lingo. I'm not sure what factors current psychiatrists link this too, however, for Freud at this point in his thinking, which is prior to Beyond the Pleasure Principle (a turning point in his thought), he is still in dialogue with Adler, Jung and Ferenczi (at least in thought), and he is attributing the disturbances of the analysand to things such as psychosexual development (oral, anal and genital stages), the castration complex, and the primal scene.
Now that I have read this... I am interested in reading what Lacan has to say...
May 27, 2019
L'ho apprezzato un po' meno rispetto a L'uomo dei topi: Osservazioni su un caso di nevrosi ossessiva. Da un lato, la meraviglia per le teorie freudiane era sparita; dall'altro, forse, il caso del povero Sergej era meno interessante dell'altro.
Resta poi da chiedersi se davvero una persona riesca a ricordare qualcosa che è avvenuto quando aveva poco più di un anno.
Un altro però che passa alla storia come colui che ha bisogno dei clisteri per andare in bagno.
Ho ancora Dora da leggere.
Resta poi da chiedersi se davvero una persona riesca a ricordare qualcosa che è avvenuto quando aveva poco più di un anno.
Un altro però che passa alla storia come colui che ha bisogno dei clisteri per andare in bagno.
Ho ancora Dora da leggere.
September 19, 2025
Inmiddels bijna 10 boeken gelezen uit de complete werken van Freud, velen met plezier en anderen met verbazing. Dit boek gaf vooral ongeloof. Hij is zich er vaak van bewust dat hij zaken poneert waar niet iedereen het mee eens is en probeert andere opvattingen te weerleggen of zwart te maken maar hij krijgt mij niet mee. Een hele verklaring ophangen aan een paar mogelijke herinnering van een peuter terwijl hij inmiddels 25 is en zo jeugdgedrag beschrijven gaat me te ver. Ook de opbouw met steeds weer een nieuw feitje die er bij past stoort.
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November 6, 2019What good are the passions? For sooner or later
Their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard,-
Is stupid and empty - a joke...
-- from 'Bored and Sad' by Mihail Yuryevich Lermontov
Their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard,-
Is stupid and empty - a joke...
-- from 'Bored and Sad' by Mihail Yuryevich Lermontov
October 1, 2024
Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınlarından çıkan ağustos 2023 ilk baskı vesilesiyle bitirme imkanım oldu. Biraz farklı bakar konuşala Freud diye düşünüyordum ama bu kadarını beklemiyordum. Oidipus Kompleksine vaka olarak ayrıntılı değerlendirme yapmış. Yorucu bir kitap
November 16, 2017
I have so many questions...
July 16, 2020
Great book ! It shows that all we are now is the result of something we have done or experienced in our childhood
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July 14, 2022a dream of 7 white wolves in a tree = u saw ur parents having sex when u were 1 and half years old and it will forever haunt u
August 7, 2022
Saw his parents copulating when he was a child, became homosexual (or bi?).
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 26, 2023
Freud konuşuyor
November 28, 2023
Super interesting. Pretty cool to see how he weaves his interpretation through the dream and his life
February 23, 2024
I like the autobiography half, not the Freud half
April 19, 2024
me pareció un embole pero a su vez fue muy entretenido el caso y pude reforzar conocimientos y relaciones psicoanalistas con otros textos del autor
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