Sigmund: 680 books

Freud raconte dans ce livre sa vie et la naissance de la psychanalyse. Ce témoignage à la fois personnel et objectif, par un des hommes qui ont décisivement façonné notre époque, est un des grands livres de notre temps.

Riche de près de 300 lettres, la correspondance inédite entre Freud et la plus jeune de ses filles, Anna, est un document exceptionnel. Tout au long de cette chronique de la vie d’une famille viennoise pendant les premières décennies du XXe siècle, on découvre l'homme Freud travaillant à...

Ses conclusions célèbres sur la Vie et la Mort ont été respectées par la philosophie contemporaine, qui les a prolongées, dans un recours moins affirmé au concept obscur d'Instinct, en éclairant le dualisme freudien par l'opposition dialectique de l'Existence et de l'Être-pour-la-mort.​

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé.  Extrait: Je commence par le déclarer : je ne suis pas un vrai connaisseur d'art, mais un simple amateur. J'ai souvent remarqué que le fond d'une couvre d'art m'attirait...

Extrait: " La création littéraire et le rêve éveillé " Nous autres, profanes, avons toujours vivement désiré savoir d'où cette personnalité à part, le créateur littéraire (poète, romancier ou dramaturge),...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, a été relu et corrigé.  Extrait:  Lorsqu'on a vécu longtemps dans l'ambiance d'une certaine culture et qu'on s'est souvent efforcé d'en découvrir les origines et les voies...

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual,...

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way beyond the institutional/clinical market and presents material to the reader in a new way. This volume will contain NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS and AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS.

'Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in psychoanalysis - and these papers [in Wild Analysis] represent his most significant contributions to the subject...

Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the American Psychological Association, they have attracted great and growing attention and found frequent elaboration by students of literature, history, biography, sociology, morals and...

Finding cocaine to be an analgesic and a cure for depression, Freud hailed it as a miracle drug, stressing in particular its apparent lack of side effects. Marveling at its ability to "cure" addictions to morphine, he enthusiastically recommended it to all his acquaintances. Eventually,...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...

THE SAVAGE’S DREAD OF INCEST PRIMITIVE man is known to us by the stages of development through which he has passed: that is, through the inanimate monuments and implements which he has left behind for us, through our knowledge of his art, his religion and his attitude towards life, which we have received...

These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies...