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1st Edition

Sigmund Freud The Basics

By Janet Sayers Copyright 2021
238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Sigmund Freud: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction to the life and ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and a key figure in the history of psychology. Janet Sayers provides an accessible overview of Freud’s early life and work, beginning with his childhood. Her book includes the stories of his most famous patients: Dora, Little Hans, the Rat Man, Judge Schreber,... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Pre-psychoanalytic Freud

  1. Childhood and youth

  2. Talking cure

  3. Resistance and repression

  4. Repressed abuse

  5. Wishful fantasy

    6. Conclusions to Part I

    Part II: Unconscious-conscious dynamics

  6. Dreams

  7. Freudian slips

  8. Jokes

  9. Sex

    10. Conclusions to Part II

    Part III: Psychoanalytic case studies

  10. Dora’s dreams

  11. Hans’s phobia

  12. The rat man’s obsession

  13. Schreber’s schizophrenia

  14. The wolf man’s nightmare

    15. Conclusions to Part III

    Part IV: Consolidating psychoanalysis

  15. Freud vs. Jung

  16. Sex and repression

  17. Freudian symbols

  18. More about sex

  19. Symptom formation

  20. Psychoanalytic treatment

    21. Conclusions to Part IV

    Part V: War and its psychoanalytic aftermath

  21. Mourning and melancholia

  22. Trauma and the death instinct

  23. Oedipus, castration, penis envy

  24. Id-ego-superego

    25. Conclusions to Part V

    Part VI: Beyond clinical psychoanalysis

  25. Art, literature, film

  26. Anthropology

  27. Religion

  28. Sociology

  29. Gender politics

  30. Racism

Conclusions to Part VI

Glossary

References

Index

Biography

Janet Sayers is emeritus professor of psychoanalytic psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury where she also works as a clinical psychologist for the National Health Service. Her previous Routledge books include Art, Psychoanalysis and Adrian Stokes: A Biography; Freud’s Art: Psychoanalysis Retold; and Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams.

'An enjoyable and informative introduction to Freud’s work, illustrated with pithy examples of his own reasoning which artfully encourages the reader to learn more about psychoanalysis’s founding theorist and practitioner.' – Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and many other books, most recently In Therapy: The Unfolding Story

'This book works through the fascinating string of ideas which Freud produced in trying to find access to the hidden unconscious area of the mind by which we all live. With this introductory text Janet Sayers provides comprehensive coverage of the many areas of human life and experience considered by Freud including his false starts, detours, and ways in which both he and his followers addressed issues in developmental and abnormal psychology as well as in the arts, social sciences, and in religion too.' – Bob Hinshelwood, psychoanalyst and emeritus professor, University of Essex

"Overall, in a relatively short space, Sayers has written a balanced, scholarly and accessible introduction to Freud, which I think will appeal to students, as well as psychodynamic and psychoanalytic trainees." - Stephen Crawford, British Journal of Psychotherapy

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