Sigmund Freud - The Basics (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Sigmund Freud: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction to the life and ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and a key figure in the history of psychology.

Janet Sayers provides an accessible overview of Freud’s early life and work, beginning with his childhood. Her book includes the stories of his most famous patients: Dora, Little Hans, the Rat Man, Judge Schreber, and the Wolf Man. It also discusses Freud’s key ideas such as psychosexual development, the Oedipus complex, and psychoanalytic treatment. Sayers then covers Freud’s later work, with a description of his observations about depression, trauma and the death instinct, as well as his 1923 theory of the id, ego, and superego. The book includes a glossary of key terms and concludes with examples of how psychoanalysis has been applied to the study of art, literature, film, anthropology, religion, sociology, gender politics, and racism.

Sigmund Freud: The Basics offers an essential introduction for students from all backgrounds seeking to understand Freud’s ideas and for general readers with an interest in psychology. For those already familiar with Freudian ideas, it offers a helpful guide to their interdisciplinary applications and context not least today.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Pre-psychoanalytic Freud

Childhood and youth

Talking cure

Resistance and repression

Repressed abuse

Wishful fantasy

Conclusions to Part I

Part II: Unconscious-conscious dynamics

Dreams

Freudian slips

Jokes

Sex

Conclusions to Part II

Part III: Psychoanalytic case studies

Dora’s dreams

Hans’s phobia

The rat man’s obsession

Schreber’s schizophrenia

The wolf man’s nightmare

Conclusions to Part III

Part IV: Consolidating psychoanalysis

Freud vs. Jung

Sex and repression

Freudian symbols

More about sex

Symptom formation

Psychoanalytic treatment

Conclusions to Part IV

Part V: War and its psychoanalytic aftermath

Mourning and melancholia

Trauma and the death instinct

Oedipus, castration, penis envy

Id-ego-superego

Conclusions to Part V

Part VI: Beyond clinical psychoanalysis

Art, literature, film

Anthropology

Religion

Sociology

Gender politics

Racism

Conclusions to Part VI

Glossary

References

Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Basics
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Janet Sayers
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	238
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-34012-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Promotions
LSN:	0-367-34012-7
Barcode:	9780367340124

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