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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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Against Progress (Žižek's Essays)
On Giving Up
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
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Heaven in Disorder
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
On Getting Better
Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control
On Wanting to Change
On Violence and On Violence Against Women
Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World
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
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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