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Leonardo Da Vinci by Sigmund Freud
Category: Culture | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the principal founder of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It remained Freud's favourite composition. Compressing many of his insights into a few pages, the result is a fascinating picture of some of Freud ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood by Sigmund Freud; James Strachey (General Editor); Alan Tyson (Translator); Peter Gay (Introduction by)
Category: Reference | Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Ser.
Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output. A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud's first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and also his ef ...Show more
Mass Psychology: and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud
Category: Psychology
Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In "Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I'" he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would ...Show more
Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
Category: Religion
In 1938 the 'father of Psychoanalysis' Sigmund Freud found himself an exile in London, a victim of Nazi persecution. But Britain's religious freedom at last gave Freud the opportunity to complete a work he had withheld from the public during his time in Catholic Vienna - a study on the biblical Moses an ...Show more
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
Category: Science | Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Ed ...Show more
On Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Among the first of Sigmund Freud's many contributions to psychology and psychoanalysis was The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, and considered his greatest work -- even by Freud himself. Aware, however, that it was a long and difficult book, he resolved to compile a more concise and accessib ...Show more
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud
Category: Personal Development | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In "Totem and Taboo", he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies ...Show more
Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
Category: General Fiction | Series: Psychology Ser.
The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter--and how a young acquaintance mang ...Show more
Sigmund Freud: Essays and Papers by Sigmund Freud; Joan Riviere (Translator); Lisa Appignanesi (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
'Freud the writer is what Joan Riviere so elegantly presents to the English-Language reader'Lisa Appignanesi from her preface to Sigmund Freud: Essays and PapersThis collection focuses in on the set of Riviere's translations that made up the first library of Freud in English. Including his papers on met ...Show more
Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas-Salome - Letters by Sigmund Freud; Lou Andreas-Salomé; Ernst Pfeiffer (Intro and Notes by, Editor); William Robson-Scott (Translator); Elaine Robson-Scott (Translator)
Category: Culture
Lou Andreas-Salom (1861-1937) was a writer and disciple of Freud who became a practicing analyst. For over two decades she and Freud kept up an intensive correspondence. Freud found in her a perceptive appreciater and amplifier of his ideas, and Frau Andreas found him a sympathetic critic of her own. Th ...Show more