Download general introduction to psychoanalysis PDF book by Sigmund Freud (1922)

Few, especially in this country, realize that while Freudian themes have rarely found a place on the programs of the Ameri- can Psychological Association, they have attracted great and growing attention and found frequent elaboration by students of literature, history, biography, sociology, morals and aesthetics, anthropology, education, and religion.They have given the world a new conception of both infancy and adolescence, and shed much new light upon characterology; given us a new and clearer view of sleep, dreams, reveries, and revealed hitherto unknown mental mechanisms common to normal and pathological states and processes, showing that the law of causation extends to the most incoherent acts and even verbigerations in insanity; gone far to clear up the terra incognita of hysteria; taught us to recognize morbid symptoms, often neurotic and psychotic in their germ; revealed the operations of the primitive mind so overlaid and repressed that we had almost lost sight of them; fashioned and used the key of symbolism to unlock many mysticisms of the past; and in addition to all this, affected thousands of cures, established a new prophylaxis, and suggested new tests for character, disposition, and ability, in all combining the practical and theoretic to a degree salutary as it is rare.These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. These discourses are at the same time simple and almost confidential, and they trace and sum up the results of thirty years of devoted and painstaking research. While they are not at all controversial, we incidentally see in a clearer light the distinctions between the master and some of his distinguished pupils. A text like this is *he most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis.Part oneThe psychology of errorsPreface by Stanley hallLectureI. Introduction 1Ii. The psychology of errors 10Iii. The psychology of errors (continued) 23Iv. The psychology of errors (conclusion) 41Part twoThe dreamV. Difficulties and preliminary approach 63Vi. Hypothesis and technique of interpretation .... 78Vii. Manifest dream content and latent dream thought 90Viii. Dreams of childhood. 101ix. The dream censor 110X. Symbolism in the dream 12&Xi. The dream-work 141Xii. Analyses of sample dreams 153Xiii. Archaic remnants and infantilism in the dream . . 167Xiv. Wish fulfillment 180Xv. Doubtful points and criticism. 194Part threeThe general theory of the neurosesXvi. Psychoanalysis and psychiatry 209Xvii. The meaning of the symptoms 221Xviii. Traumatic fixation the unconscious 236Xix. Resistance and supression 248Xx. The sexual life or man 262Xxi. Development of the libido and sexual organizations 277Xxii. Theories of development and regression etiology. 294Xxiii. The development of the symptoms 311Ordinary nervousness . . .Fear and anxietyThe libido theory and narcismTransferenceAnalytical therapy,