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Author Badcock, C. R.

Title Essential Freud / Christopher Badcock
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1992

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Description xv, 181 pages ; 21 cm
Contents 1. The Fundamental Findings. The Einstein of the unconscious. Mental topography. Psychological dynamics. Repression, pleasure principle and reality. The Darwin of the mind -- 2. The First Psychoanalytic Revolution. Hypnosis and hysteria. Trauma and the pressure method. The emergence of the dynamic view. Free association and the fall of the seduction theory. The Gross method of psychoanalysis -- 3. Dreams. Dream-interpretation and self-analysis. A specimen dream. The dreamwork. Wish-fulfillment. A corroborating dream -- 4. The Libido Theory. Listening to the libido. Auto-eroticism and the oral stage. Anal and sadistic. The psychotic singularity. The libido and the selfish gene -- 5. The Oedipus Complex. Parent-offspring conflict. Parental investment and Oedipal behaviour. Conflict and co-operation. Penis-envy and the castration complex. Resolution and identification -- 6. The Second Psychoanalytic Revolution. The transference neurosis. The ego and the id
Ego-analysis and child therapy. Special and general theories of anxiety. Beyond Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- 7. Social Psychology. The ambivalence of thoughts. The origin of guilt. Transference psychology and group analysis. An illusion and its past. Revolution, reaction and reality -- 8. Freud, the Present, Past and Future. In the black books. The Jewish question. Problems with the past. Prospects in the present. Freud for the future
Analysis Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis
Notes Previous ed: 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-176) and index
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Philosophers.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
LC no. 91021437
ISBN 0631177744 (paperback: alk. paper)