Title : Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud - Book
Summary :
During the winters of 1915-16 and 1916-17, Freud gave a series of lectures at the Vienna Medical Faculty. As an indication of the growing popularity of psychoanalysis at the time, these lectures, published in volume form and soon translated into some fifteen languages, were to have a great impact throughout the world. A century later, the success of this sourcebook on psychoanalysis and Freudianism continues unabated. " The Introduction to Psychoanalysis " comprises three groups of lectures: the first four—which partly repeat the material from " Psychopathology of Everyday Life "—concern slips of the tongue. In the introductory chapter, Freud brilliantly alternates seriousness and humor, rigor and derision, in order to present his new science to an audience he considered ill-informed, even partly hostile. He focuses in particular on the distinction between medicine and psychoanalysis: "Psychoanalytic treatment involves only an exchange of words between the analysand and the doctor," he asserts. He then addresses the two major difficulties that await analysands: the majority of psychic processes are unconscious and sexuality plays a major role in them with its various phenomena of drives, resistances, repressions and sublimations. The following eleven lessons — a summary of the pioneering work " The Interpretation of Dreams " — are devoted to dreams and the necessary knowledge of their impressive corpus of symbols when the technique of free association does not work. Finally, the last thirteen are grouped under the title "General Theory of Neuroses" and mark an important stage in Freudian theoretical development that would later be pursued through studies on libido, inhibition, anxiety and narcissism. The last chapter is devoted to analytical therapy, highlighting both the prejudices it faces and the abuses to which it can give rise, particularly due to the manipulation of transference.
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