Along with the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, this book remains one of Freud's most widely read.
It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of technical terminology. And Freud put himself on the line: numerous acts of willful forgetting or "inexplicable" mistakes are recounted from his personal experience. none of such actions can be called truly accidental, or uncaused: that is the real lesson of the Psychopathology.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
Original Language: German
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.
Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.
Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.
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This is a great book, but I would advise against this edition for your Kindle. After the first 10% there is an inexcusable amount of typos. It makes for a frustrating read of what would otherwise be a very engaging and beneficial work.
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This is a fantastic, captivating book. The theories and ideas outlined in "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" are logical and seem more applicable, plausible, and realistic (i.e. more easily seen in everyday life) than some of Freud's other theories. Highly recommended for anyone interested in psychology, character, human behavior, or Freud's work. Covers a lot about human memory. A very good resource to have.
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This book has possibly done more than any other book to popularise psychology. Freud wrote it deliberately for the ordinary reader at the turn of the 20th century and, as fresh editions appeared, constantly added new illustrations and anecdotes without changing his basic theories.
Here, with brief examples, we have the simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody: the sudden forgetting of proper names, of sets of words, impressions and intentions, childhood and 'screen' memories; bungled actions and other errors; and all those little, significant mistakes of tongue and pen that have come to be called 'Freudian slips'.
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In the 1898 volume of the Monatsschrift fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie I published under the title of "The Psychical Mechanism of Forgetfulness' [Freud, 1898b] a short paper the substance of which I shall recapitulate here and take as the starting-point for more extensive discussions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
defensive trend, repressed topic, symptomatic acts, substitutive formation, bungled actions, chance actions, psychical material, interleaved copy, twelve fingers, external association, unconscious intention, missing name Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Introductory Lectures, Ernest Jones, Otto Rank, Harms Sachs, Editor's Introduction, Eduard Hitschmann, Inner Town, Monsieur Jocelyn, Die Zensur, Ferenczi of Budapest, Hanns Sachs, Professor Erdmann, Wilhelm Stekel New!
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In the 1898 volume of the Monatsschrift fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie I published under the title of "The Psychical Mechanism of Forgetfulness' [Freud, 1898b] a short paper the substance of which I shall recapitulate here and take as the starting-point for more extensive discussions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
defensive trend, repressed topic, symptomatic acts, substitutive formation, bungled actions, chance actions, psychical material, interleaved copy, twelve fingers, external association, unconscious intention, missing name Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Introductory Lectures, Ernest Jones, Otto Rank, Harms Sachs, Editor's Introduction, Eduard Hitschmann, Inner Town, Monsieur Jocelyn, Die Zensur, Ferenczi of Budapest, Hanns Sachs, Professor Erdmann, Wilhelm Stekel New!
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- Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- On Dreams (The Standard Edition) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) by Sigmund Freud in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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