The Penguin Freud Reader

Adam Phillips, Sigmund Freud

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Penguin
03 March 2006

Prose: non-fiction; Psychology

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work.

Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man.

Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for desires that have never found expression. Much more than this, however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of the most haunting writers of the modern age.

By: Sigmund Freud
Edited by: Adam Phillips
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9780141187433
ISBN 10: 0141187433
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 03 March 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century. Adam Phillips was formerly Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Darwin's Worms, Promises, Promises, Houdini's Box and, most recently, Going Sane.