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Studies in Parapsychology

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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., 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), General Psychological Theory, Freud: Three Case Histories).

This book contains three essays: "The Uncanny," "Dreams and Telepathy," and "A Neurosis of Demonical Possession."

Here are some representative quotations from the book:

"(T)he 'uncanny' is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar."
"Taken in all, the foregoing prepares us for the discovery that whatever reminds us of this inner repetition-compulsion is perceived as uncanny."
"It may be true that the uncanny is nothing else than a hidden, familiar thing that has undergone repression and then emerged from it, and that everything that is uncanny fulfills this condition. But these factors do not solve the problem of the uncanny."
"For the benefit of those who are concerned for the wish-fulfillment theory of dreams I may interpolate a reassurance by saying that there was no difficulty in detecting by analysis the unconscious motives that might be presumed to exist in these death-dreams just as in others."

I ordered this used book for a friend who does not own a computer and is unfamiliar with the Web. The book's condition was fine, just as described on Amazon. My friend was pleased to own it. Personally, I think that Freud did for science what Lord of the Rings did for literature.