Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; from 1860 until Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938 he lived in Vienna. He was then forced to seek asylum in London, where he died the following year. He began his career as a doctor, specialising in work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when his interests first turned to psychology, and during ten years of clinical work in Vienna he developed the practice of what he called ""psychoanalysis"". This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an investigation of the workings of the mind in general, both ill or healthy. Freud demonstrated the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freud's ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but have also influenced the entire intellectual climate of the last century.
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi: Volume 3: 1920-1933
This third and final volume of the correspondence between the founder of psychoanalysis and one of his most colourful disciples beings to a closer Sandor Ferenczi's and the story of one of the most... (more)
Woodrow Wilson: a psychological study:
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A Case of Hysteria: (Dora)
'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight... (more)
Leonardo da Vinci
Sigmund Freud was already internationally acclaimed as the father of psychoanalysis when he turned his attention to the life of Leonardo. The result is a unique introduction to some of Freud's... (more)
The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion. This work provoked immediate... (more)
Civilisation and Its Discontents
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all... (more)