Sigmund Freud

Jean-Michel Quinodoz introduces the essential life and work of Sigmund Freud, from his clinical experiences in Vienna in the 1880s to his final years in London in the 1930s. Freud's discoveries, including universally-influential concepts like the Oedipus Complex and the interpretation of dreams, continue to be applied in many disciplines today.

Sigmund Freud is a book in which each chapter is a gema concise, very accessible rendering of the essence of Freud's psychoanalytic thinking, accessible by readers within and outside of the field of psychotherapy. This is not a textbook or primer; it is an insightful discussion of some of the most important ideas to be launched in the twentieth century. Dr. Thomas Ogden (Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California) In his new, quite brief, book on Freud, Jean-Michel Quinodoz captures both the breadth and the depth of Freud's work. It is not a superficial summary of Freud's work, but rather a remarkable re-presentation and exploration of Freud's central psychoanalytic tenets that continue to underlie and inform our work today as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. William F. Cornell (author of Explorations in Transactional Analysis) Jean Michel Quinodoz is able to distil complex ideas into something easily available to a wide audience without talking down to his readers. He has managed to cover in this small book the main lines of Freud's oeuvre. Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen (British Psychoanalytical Society and The Institute of Psychoanalysis)

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Jean-Michel Quinodoz is an internationally-acclaimed psychoanalytic theorist and clinician. He is author of The Taming of Solitude, Dreams That Turn Over a Page, Reading Freud*, Listening to Hanna Segal and Melanie Klein and Marcelle Spira* (all Routledge).

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

A constantly evolving system of thought

CHAPTER ONE

Sigmund Freud from 1856 to 1900

CHAPTER TWO

Hysteria and the discovery of psychoanalysis

CHAPTER THREE

Self-analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

The interpretation of dreams

CHAPTER FIVE

Manifestations of the unconscious in everyday life

CHAPTER SIX

Infantile sexuality

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Oedipus complex and the unconscious

CHAPTER EIGHT

The transference, the psychoanalytic setting and technique

CHAPTER NINE

Four of Freud's clinical observations

CHAPTER TEN

Metapsychology (Freud, 1915-1917)

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The fundamental conflict between the life drive and the death drive

CHAPTER TWELVE

The ego, the id and the superego

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The fear of losing the loved, desired person

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Psychosis, disavowal of reality and ego-splitting

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Religion and civilization: pessimism or lucidity?

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Sigmund Freud from 1900 to 1939

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