Psychoanalysis category: 1976 books

The Making of Psychohistory is the first volume dedicated to the history of psychohistory, an amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences. Dr. Paul Elovitz, a participant since the early days of the organized field, recounts the origins and development of this interdisciplinary area...

Originally published in 1981, this study is the outcome of a clinical workshop based in the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic; its members at the time shared a tradition and interest in applying psychoanalytic principles to the understanding of groups and institutions and believed in the...

Der Reiz des Beitrags 'Die philosophische Basis der Freudschen Psychoanalyse' von Erich Fromm besteht darin, dass der zwanglose Vortragsstil, den Fromm gerade bei einem psychologisch nicht vorgebildeten Auditorium pflegte, noch gut erkennbar ist. Inhaltlich geht es um die 'Basics' der Psychoanalyse...

L’idiota e la lettera è un piccolo libro su un testo sterminato: L’idiota della famiglia, monumentale biografia di Gustave Flaubert, quasi un testamento filosofico per il suo autore, Jean-Paul Sartre. I temi e le ossessioni sono quelle intorno a cui Sartre lavora per tutta una vita. La nascita...

The work of Sigmund Freud, one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years, redefined the fields of neurology and psychotherapy and the way we view the human mind. Most strands of the psychoanalytic discipline can even today be traced back to the leaps in understanding he made all those...

In this absorbing, thoughtful narrative, a young writer explores Sigmund Freud’s provocative ideas on creativity and mortality and their roots in his history, while searching for broader lessons about love, memory, mourning, and creativity. Written in 1915 during winter and wartime, Freud’s...

When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses—most notably a dream about wolves outside his bedroom window—eventually revealed a deep-seated trauma. It took more than four years to treat him, and "The Wolfman" became one of Freud's most...

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, edited and abridged in one volume by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus (244,000 words, 31 illustrations) Ernest Jones’s three-volume The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud was first published in the mid-1950s. This edited and abridged volume...

En función de facilitar al lector el entendimiento y la compresión de lo expresado por Sigmund Freud en los textos incluidos en este libro algunos de ellos vertidos en su versión completa y otros consistentes en fragmentos extractados de un texto mucho mayor- hemos orientado nuestra selección...

Kaum jemand hat ein ganzes Zeitalter durch sein Denken so tiefgreifend verändert wie Sigmund Freud. Nach Freud träumen und lieben, denken und phantasieren wir anders. Diese grandiose Biographie schildert Freuds Leben und die Entwicklung der Psychoanalyse als großen Roman des Geistes. Wien im sinkenden...

On connaît l’intérêt passionné du romancier d’Amok et du Joueur d’échecs pour les zones inexplorées et obscures de l’esprit humain. Biographe érudit et passionnant, il évoque ici trois figures historiques qui ont été parmi les premières à s’y aventurer. À la fin du xviiie siècle,...

Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work...

A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.

An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES. Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his contemporaries. In this probing biographical essay...