[The Key Ideas 01] • Freud - The Key Ideas · Teach Yourself (TY Philosophy) by Snowden, Ruth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Copyright Dedication Contents Meet the author Only got a minute? Only got five minutes? Only got ten minutes? Introduction 1 Freud’s life and career

Freud’s early life Vienna and the society in which Freud lived A brief outline of Freud’s career Freud’s private life and personality

2 Freud’s early work

Freud’s medical training Scientific research Hysteria and hypnosis Nineteenth-century scientific and moral thinking Freud’s first ideas about the unconscious

3 The beginnings of psychoanalysis

The crucial decade The repression of sexual ideas The seduction theory The pressure technique The free-association technique Transference Freud’s self-analysis The analysis of Dora

4 The interpretation of dreams

Why dreams are important in psychoanalysis Dreams as wish fulfilment Dream mechanisms Methods of dream interpretation Freudian symbols Origins of dreams

5 Exploring the unconscious

The divisions of the mind The theory of the unconscious The pleasure principle and the reality principle Parapraxis, the famous Freudian slip Jokes and the unconscious

6 Sexual theories

Freud attacks current thinking Sexual deviations Infantile sexuality The struggles of puberty

7 Going back to childhood

Psychosexual development Infantile amnesia The oral stage The anal stage The phallic stage The Oedipus complex The latency stage The genital stage

8 Seeking an adult identity

Freud’s new model of the mind The id The ego The super-ego Anxiety Defence mechanisms Narcissism Mourning and melancholia Instincts Eros and Thanatos Character

9 Freud and society

Civilization Religion Thoughts about war Art and literature

10 Psychoanalysis

The process of psychoanalysis Some of Freud’s own cases Early beginnings of the psychoanalytic movement Rifts in the psychoanalytic movement Some famous followers of Freud Psychoanalysis today

Glossary Taking it further

Timeline of important events in Freud’s life Places to visit A list of Freud’s most important works Further reading Useful websites

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