Select Works of Sigmund Freud (5 vols.)

by Sigmund Freud

Publishers:

The Macmillan Company; Horace Liveright; James A. McCann Company

and

2 more

, 1910–1921

Overview

Though his work is no longer prevalent in practical psychology, Freud remains an important figure across the humanities and in the history of psychology. This collection contains some of his most important work, including The Interpretation of Dreams and Totem and Taboo. Freud’s work is consistently noted for its readability, making these primary sources an excellent place to access the influential thought of the man who founded psychoanalysis and brought words like repression, the unconscious, libido, id, ego, and superego into common use.

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Key Features

• Provides access to the thought of the founder of psychoanalysis
• Explores Freud’s influence in literary, historiographical, and sociological theory
• Includes the influential works The Interpretation of Dreams and Totem and Taboo

Product Details

• Title: Select Works of Sigmund Freud
• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Volumes: 5
• Pages: 1,624
• Resource Type: Collected Works
• Topic: Modern Philosophy

The Interpretation of Dreams

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: The MacMillan Company
• Publication Date: 1913
• Pages: 534

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Of this, one of Freud’s earliest and still perhaps his most widely-read works, he said, “Insight such as this falls to one’s lot but once in a lifetime.” Examining dreams was an integral part of Freud’s psychoanalysis, and in The Interpretation of Dreams we see the outline of most of the theory that would be fully developed through his life. The initially unpopular book rose to prominence along with its author in the early twentieth century, and is a classic in the history of psychology. Though its prevalence as a scientific resource for psychologists has diminished, it has risen in importance in the humanities as an important piece of sociological, historiographical, and literary theory.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: Horace Liveright
• Publication Date: 1920
• Pages: 429

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This introductory volume collects 28 lectures delivered by Sigmund Freud to laymen. They carry a conversational tone that is easy to follow and are an excellent resource for those seeking to gain an understanding of Freud’s contributions to Western science and philosophy. They highlight how Freud’s theory have been frequently adapted and expanded upon in the humanities.

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: James A. McCann Company
• Publication Date: 1921
• Pages: 258

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Freud’s professional work was consistently noted for its readability. Dream Psychology is an introductory text to interpreting dreams in the psychoanalytic system presented in Freud’s own artful and conversational voice.

The publishers of the present book deserve credit for presenting to the reading public the gist of Freud’s psychology in the master’s own words, and in a form which shall neither discourage beginners, nor appear too elementary to those who are more advanced in psychoanalytic study.

—Andre Tridon, author, Psychoanalysis and Love

Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
• Publication Date: 1910
• Pages: 115

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This volume contains three of Freud’s most significant essays, “The Sexual Aberrations,” “The Infantile Sexuality,” and “The Transformation of Puberty.” They develop Freud’s theories of sexuality as the primary force behind neuroses, particularly how it relates to childhood.

[These three essays] occupy—brief as they are—an important position among the achievements of their author, a great investigator and pioneer in an important line.

—James Jackson Putnam, founding member and first president, American Psychoanalytical Association

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics

• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Publisher: Moffat, Yard and Company
• Publication Date: 1919
• Pages: 288

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In Totem and Taboo, Freud applies his psychoanalytic theory to archaeology, anthropology, and religion, investigating how psychoanalysis affects more than just individuals, but society at large. Anthropologist Géza Róheim considered the work a landmark study in the history of anthropology and contemporary philosopher René Girard still calls Totem and Taboo influential to his thought, especially Freud’s idea of “collective murder.” The book contains four essays: “The Horror of Incest,” “Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence,” “Animism, Magic, and the Omnipotence of Thoughts,” and “The Return of Totemism in Childhood.”

About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He earned his credentials as a medical doctor from the University of Vienna and his early research focused on cerebral palsy, aphasia, and neuroanatomy. He published perhaps his most important work, The Interpretation of Dreams, in 1900 and founded the International Psychoanalytical Association in 1910. He influenced many psychologists, including Alfred Adler, Jacques Lacan, and, most famously, Carl Jung. He fled Nazi Germany in 1938. In 1939, suffering from painful, inoperable buccal cancer, Freud requested and received lethal doses of morphine.

As the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud is best known for his concepts and techniques such as free association, transference, the Oedipus complex, dream interpretation, repression, the unconscious, libido, the death drive, and the id, ego, and superego. Though Freud’s thought is no longer prevalent in most psychiatric circles, he remains influential across the humanities—including literary criticism, philosophy, sociology, and feminist theory—and many of his ideas have been thoroughly absorbed into Western popular culture.