The Freud reader / edited by Peter Gay.
By: Freud, Sigmund
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Contributor(s): Gay, Peter [editor].
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BookPublisher: London : Vintage, 1995Description: xlvii, 832 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0099577119 (paperback).Subject(s): PsychoanalysisDDC classification: 150.1952 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 150.1952 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 11/03/2026 | 00106246 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of 20th century life. To understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his vivid writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture.
The Freud Reader is the first single-volume work to bring together in accessible form Freud's ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud's entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilisation and Its Discontents .
Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud, has put together this selection to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. He has also written clear introductions to the selected texts and a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture.
Bibliography: (pages 799-801) and index.
Part one: Making of a psychoanalyst -- Part two: The classic theory -- Part three: Therapy and technique -- Part four: Psychoanalysis in culture -- Part five: Transitions and revisions -- Part six: The last chapter.
Reviews provided by Syndetics
Library Journal Review
Author of numerous books on Freud, including a highly regarded biography ( Freud, LJ 7/88), Gay offers the general reader a comprehensive survey of Freud's psychoanalytical, political, and philosophical writings. Preceded by a meaty introduction that emphasizes Freud's commitment to science and reason, this single-volume work includes some 50 of Freud's texts, organized chronologically with headnotes. The selections range from case studies and theoretical discussions about dreams, anxiety, and anal eroticism to essays on lay analysis and religion as humankind's obsessional neurosis. Read sequentially, they allow readers to trace Freud's conceptual shift from a topographic theory of the mind to his structural theory of drives. A scholarly work for students and those wanting more than a cursory look.-- Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Booklist Review
Gay, the author of Freud: A Life for Our Time [BKL Ap 1 88], now has edited a collection of the Viennese psychoanalyst's writings in an effort to portray, all in one volume, the range of Freud's ideas. Selected from the Standard Edition of Freud in English translation, these 50 examples of Freud's ideas and views extend from the early studies in psychoanalysis to the late contemplations on civilization. Gay introduces the selections and also contributes a preface on the many facets of Freud's work. An excellent introduction to the mind and work of one of the most important figures in contemporary culture. Chronology and bibliography; index. --John BrosnahanAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Peter Gay lives in New York City and Connecticut.