Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others.

Freud first used the term psychoanalysis (in French) in 1896. Die Traumdeutung (The Interpretation of Dreams), which Freud saw as his "most significant work", appeared in November 1899. Psychoanalysis was later developed in different directions, mostly by student
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Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
Heaven in Disorder
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future?
On Wanting to Change
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
On Getting Better
Decoding Jung's Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
On Giving Up
The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist
Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Interpretation of Dreams
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Seminar of Jacques Lacan)
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Totem and Taboo
How to Read Lacan
The Ego and the Id
Écrits
Man and His Symbols
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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Psychoanalysis and Lacan
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17 books — 10 voters

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Therapist's reading list
118 books — 37 voters

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Books critical of Freud
14 books — 1 voter
The Murder of Professor Schlick by David EdmondsThe Crossroads of Civilization by Angus RobertsonAsperger's Children by Edith ShefferSaving Freud by Andrew NagorskiThe Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Vienna: History of Ideas
21 books — 5 voters


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Sigmund Freud
The freeing of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development. It is quite essential that that liberation should occur and it may be presumed that it has been to some extent achieved by everyone who has reached a normal state. Indeed, the whole progress of society rests upon the opposition between successive generations. On the other hand, there is a class of neuro ...more
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Marcel Proust
Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice that the ...more
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