Dimensions of Psychoanalysis : A Selection of Papers Presented at the Freud Memorial Lectures

This book contains a selection of the Sigmund Freud Memorial Lectures on psychoanalytic psychology delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts, pointing out that there is a tendency to consider pathological processes in terms of the vicissitudes of the person's object relationships. The Freud Memorial Professorship at University College London -- The psychoanalytic life history -- The legacy of Sigmund Freud -- Psychoanalysis and freedom of thought -- Unconscious wishes and human relationships -- Psychoanalysis and ordinary modes of thought -- Psychoanalysis as a natural science -- The Freudian left and the theory of cultural revolution -- Psychoanalysis and the natural sciences : the brain-behaviour connection from Freud to the present -- The role of illusion in the psychoanalytic cure -- Perversion and the universal law -- Memory as preparation : developmental and psychoanalytic perspectives -- The id, or the child within? Dimensions of Psychoanalysis contains a selection of the Freud Memorial Lectures delivered by eminent British, French and American analysts at University College in the University of London. Together the papers form a powerful presentation of contemporary psychoanalytic thought, both Freudian and post-Freudian, in its relation to the profession itself and to the wider disciplines of sociology, the natural sciences and literature