The Freud Reader

The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.What to read from the vast output 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 only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work. Most of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. The Freud Reader contains a full array of explanatory material: a substantial general introduction a full chronology introductions to each selection a selected bibliography Title 1 Contents 5 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Sigmund Freud: A Chronology 29 A Note on Symbols and Abbreviations 47 OVERTURE 49 An Autobiographical Study 51 PART ONE: MAKING OF A PSYCHOANALYST 91 Preface to the Translation of Bernheim's Suggestion 93 Charcot 96 Draft B 103 Josef Breuer • Anna O. 108 Katharina 126 Project for a Scientific Psychology 134 Draft K 137 The Aetiology of Hysteria 144 Letters to Fliess 159 Screen Memories 165 PART TWO: THE CLASSIC THEORY 175 The Interpretation of Dreams 177 On Dreams 190 Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ("Dora") 220 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality 287 Character and Anal Erotism 341 Family Romances 345 Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning 349 PART THREE: THERAPY AND TECHNIQUE 355 Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis ("Rat Man") and Process Notes for the Case History 357 'Wild' Psycho-Analysis 399 Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho-Analysis 404 On Beginning the Treatment 411 Observations on Transference-Love 426 A Special Type of Choice of Object Made by Men (Contributions to the Psychology of Love I) 435 On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love (Contributions to the Psychology of Love 11) 442 From the History of an Infantile Neurosis ("Wolf Man") 448 PART FOUR: PSYCHOANALYSIS IN CULTURE 475 Obsessive Actions and Religious Practices 477 Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming 484 Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood 491 Totem and Taboo 529 The Theme of the Three Caskets 562 The Moses of Michelangelo 570 Contribution to a Questionnaire on Reading 587 PART FIVE: TRANSITIONS AND REVISIONS 591 On Narcissism: An Introduction 593 Instincts and Their Vicissitudes 610 Repression 616 The Unconscious 620 Mourning and Melancholia 632 Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work: [The Exceptions] 637 Beyond the Pleasure Principle 642 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego [Introduction] 674 The Ego and the Id 676 PART SIX: THE LAST CHAPTER 707 The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex 709 Negation 714 Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes 718 The Question of Lay Analysis [Postscript] 726 The Future of an Illusion 733 Civilization and Its Discontents 770 Letter to the Burgomaster of Příbor 820 Lecture XXXII: Anxiety and Instinctual Life 821 Lecture XXXV: The Question of a Weltanschauung 831 Postscript 844 Selected Bibliography 847 Index 851 The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. What to read from the vast output 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 only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the mind, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents . Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. His clear introductions to the selections help guide the reader's journey through each work. Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Standard Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words and phrases. Provides Fifty-one Texts Spanning Freud's Career, Including His Writings On Psychoanalysis, Mind, Dreams, Sexuality, Literature, Religion, Art, Politics, And Culture From the mid-1880s on, after foraging among a variety of medical subjects, Freud increasingly concentrated on mental illnesses.