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

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.