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By (author) Sigmund Freud; By (author) Freud, Sigmund; Introduction by Beer Gillian; Translated by Adey Huish, Louise
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Offers an opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.
The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips” general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light.
This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere more vividly than in The Case Histories: ”Little Hans”, ”The Rat Man”, ”The Wolf Man” and ”Some Character Types Met within Psychoanalytic Work.”
Table of contents
Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy (“Little Hans”): introduction; case history and analysis; epicrisis; postscript to the analysis of Little Hans. Some remarks on a case of obsessive-compulsive neurosis (the “Ratman”): case history; theoretical remarks. From the history of an infantile neurosis (the “Wolfman”): preliminary remarks; survey of the patient”s milieu and medical history; seduction and its immediate consequences; the dream and the primal scene; some matters for discussion; obsessive-compulsive neurosis; anal eroticism and the castration complex; supplementary material from earliest childhood – solution; recapitulations and problems. Some character types encountered in psychoanalytic work: exceptions; those who founder on success; criminals who act out of a consciousness of guilt.
Biographical note
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939.As a writer and doctor he remains one of the great voices of the modern era.
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