The Freud Reader

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Edited by PETER GAY, Yale University
What to read from the vast putput of Sigmund Freud' has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not ortly his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theary of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his Vîvid writiftgs on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.
The Freud Rçader is the firsi single-volume work to capture Freud s ideas a^ scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. It does sö with fifty-one texts, spanning Freud s entiré^career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and lts Discontents.
Petér Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefwlly chosen these sélections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TU/a
ine rreuQ Kcaucr
Edited by PETER GAY, Yale University
What to read from the vast putput of Sigmund Freud' has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to understand Freud is to explore not ortly his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theary of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his Vîvid writiftgs on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.
The Freud Rçader is the firsi single-volume work to capture Freud s ideas a^ scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. It does sö with fifty-one texts, spanning Freud s entiré^career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and lts Discontents.
Petér Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefwlly chosen these sélections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections htelp guide the readers journey through each work.
Majiy of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for whijzh Freud gave approval both to the éditorial plan and fo specific renderings of key words and phr^ies. Much of the translation was done by James Strachey, and all fell under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy'Over all other existing versions—and to render those versions obsolete. Vissza