Freud Early Psychoanalytic Writings; Freud's First Studies of Obsessions, Phobias, Anxieties, Hysterias, and Other Symptoms of Neuroses (The Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud, BS 188 V) [Mass Market Paperback]

Sigmund Freud (Author), Philip Rieff (Editor, Introduction)

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• Mass Market Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Collier Books; 1st Paperback Edition edition (1963)
• Language: English
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5.0 out of 5 stars A FINE COLLECTION OF FREUD'S EARLIEST PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS, August 16, 2010

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This review is from: Freud Early Psychoanalytic Writings; Freud's First Studies of Obsessions, Phobias, Anxieties, Hysterias, and Other Symptoms of Neuroses (The Collected Papers of Sigmund Freud, BS 188 V) (Mass Market Paperback)

Sociology professor Philip Rieff (author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist) edited a 10-volume edition of Freud's Collected Papers, which grouped the papers by general subject (e.g., General Psychological Theory, Therapy and Technique, Character and Culture, Studies in parapsychology (The collected papers of Sigmund Freud)).

Here are some representative quotations from the book:

"(H)ysterical patients suffer principally from reminiscences."
"(T)hese pathological functional changes betray, as their common source, the sexual life of the person concerned, either a disturbance of his present sexual life or important events in his past life."
"(T)he memory will produce the same result as if it were an actual event. We have, so to speak, the subsequent effect of a sexual trauma."
"I put forward the proposition, therefore, that at the bottom of every case of hysteria will be found one or more experiences of premature sexual experience, belonging to the first years of childhood, experiences which may be reproduced by analytic work though whole decades have intervened. I believe this to be a monumentous revelation..."
"(E)very one of my cases of obsessional neurosis revealed a substratum of hysterical symptoms, mainly sensations and pains, which were traced to those earliest experiences of childhood."