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.
Studies on Hysteria (1893 - 1895). Includes:
On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: A Preliminary Compunction (1893).
Case Histories: Anna O., Emmy von N., Lucy R., Katharina,... (more)
The Interpretation of Dreams Part I (1900). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud... (more)
The Ego and the Id and Other Works (1923 - 1925). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund... (more)
The Interpretation of Dreams Part II (1900) and On Dreams (1901). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological... (more)
Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts (1886 - 1899). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925-1926). 312 pages.
The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents and Other Works (1927 - 1931). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of... (more)
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1932 - 1936). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works (1914 - 1916). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard... (more)
An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works (1917 - 1919). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of... (more)
Two Case Histories: 'Little Hans' and the 'Rat Man' (1909). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works... (more)
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)
Written against a backdrop 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. (more)
One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers.... (more)
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... (more)
On the Introduction of Narcissism/Remembering, Repeating and Working Through/Beyond the Pleasure Principle/The Ego and the Id/Inhibition, Symptom and Fear
In Freud’s view we are driven by the... (more)
Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Leonardo Da Vinci and Other Works (1910). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
Totem and Taboo and Other Works (1913 - 1914). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund... (more)
Case History of Schreber, Papers on Technique and Other Works (1911 - 1913). This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete... (more)
Includes: On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena: A Lecture (1893).
The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence (1894).
Obsessions and Phobias: Their Psychical Mechanism and their Aetiology... (more)
New Introductory Lectures (1932) and An Outline of Psychoanalysis (1938).
No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining... (more)
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The major pieces collected here explore the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often screen far more... (more)
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our... (more)