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Title On Freud's "The Unconscious" / edited by Salman Akhtar & Mary Kay O'Neil
Published London : Karnac Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
Series Contemporary Freud turning points and critical issues
Contemporary Freud.
Contents COVER; CONTENTS; CONTEMPORARY FREUD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction; PART I "The unconscious" (1915e); PART II Discussion of "The unconscious"; 1 Metapsychology and clinical practice: lessons from Freud's "The unconscious"; 2 "The unconscious" in psychoanalysis and neuropsychology; 3 Freud's "The unconscious": can this work be squared with a biological account?; 4 A Hindu reading of Freud's "The unconscious"; 5 The repressed maternal in Freud's topography of mind; 6 Complementary models of the mind in Freud's "The unconscious"?
7 The unconscious in work with psychosomatic patients8 The unconscious and perceptions of the self; 9 "In spite of my ego": problem solving and the unconscious; Epilogue; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary If there ever was one word that could represent the essence of Freud's work, that word would be 'unconscious'. Indeed, Freud himself regarded his 1915 paper 'The Unconscious' as central to clarifying the fundamentals of his metapsychology. The paper delineates the topographic model of the mind and spells out the concepts of primary and secondary process thinking, thing and word presentations, timelessness of the unconscious, condensation and symbolism, unconscious problem solving, and the relationship between the system Ucs and repression. Examining these proposals in the light of contemporary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Unbewusste. English.
Psychoanalysis.
Subconsciousness.
psychoanalysis.
unconscious.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Subconsciousness
Form Electronic book
Author Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-
O'Neil, Mary Kay.
ISBN 9781782411598
1782411593
0429902689
9780429902680
0429477910
9780429477911