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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Kindle Edition

by Sigmund Freud (Author), G. Stanley Hall (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.
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Psychoanalysis is learned, first of all, from a study of one's self, through the study of one's own personality.
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The first of these displeasing assertions of psychoanalysis is this, that the psychic processes are in themselves unconscious, and that those which are conscious are merely isolated acts and parts of the total psychic life.
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Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.

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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year.

His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions.

Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half-century.

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Great but hard read

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I've only read a few sections of the book for a school project, but this book's ideas are extremely interesting, and given out in quite a lot of depth. I am very happy I have read from it and will continue to, even if it is very wordy and sometimes difficult to understand.

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Freud: the misunderstood father of psychoanalysis and psychiatry

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Dr Sigmund Freud has long been misunderstood as a nutcase or even a pervert for his ideas re: psychoanalysis, and his theories on "eros" and "thanatos". However, I have just read his five lectures on psychoanalysis, and I have found the scientific clarity with which he explained and conveyed his ideas to an audience completely unacquainted with such revolutionary ideas, mind blowing to say the least. While inherently difficult to comprehend, the sheer logic is utterly persuasive. In fact, Dr Freud is not some social scientist dreaming up some crazy psychological theory but a medical doctor who approached the problems of hysteria from the neurological viewpoint! Taking this background into account, I think his ideas must be given due credit and plausibility.

However, I must say that the origins of hysteria as a disease have not been beyond reproach. In fact, hysteria means "wandering womb" as those afflicted were often of the gentler gender; so the predominantly male doctors of the time viewed it as a female ailment, akin to something gynaecological in origin. They kind of thought the womb would wander around the body causing all kinds of symptoms in a typically fickle female manner. This is of course laughable in retrospect - we all know very well in this modern day and age that the female mind is perfectly capable of all that fickleness and much much more, without the help of the uterus.

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Very good product

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023

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Book arrived on time and in very good condition, as advertised.

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2020

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Mini damages on the book , some bended pages. Everything everything else was ok.

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Sandy

Great book for historical reasons

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

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I love exploring the historical roots of modern movements. In this case, Freud got things off and running. Some of his ideas have now been superseded with more research-based approaches, but there are still nuggets of insights hidden in his writings that are a delight to explore. This is one of his most important books, so it's a good place to start.

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Michael (Michel) White

The simple explanation of and resulting knowledge of the existence ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2018

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The simple explanation of and resulting knowledge of the existence of the three major parts of the human psyche make this worth reading, regardless of whether any of the rest of the text has been ridiculed or been considered outdated. Sorry about the spoiler, but at least now you don't have to read it. You already know the only important concept in it, and if you didn't, well now you do. :)

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Jim Boccio

"For Psych Students"

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I thought it would be interesting to read about Freud and in this book are a few of his lectures to students of Psychiatry,what I didn't know was that Psychiatrists are into dream symbolism I found that interesting, he said that Psychoanalysis is way of treating nervous patients medically with no guarantee,he said if you students choose Psychiatry people will look at you suspiciously and will not understand your aims, all in all a laborious read keep a dictionary close by to look up medical terms and as far as his relating almost everything to sex I'd have to disagree some of the time,and of course a patient is well if he meets the Psychiatrists qualifications of well which means it might vary from Psychiatrist to Psychiatrist.

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and based on what i have read so far would definitely recommend this book as an introductory course

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015

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In the beginning, one might feel that the ideas mentioned are over 200 years old and many have been revised or are common knowledge now - not expected to be read in such a book. But once you are a third into it, things really start to get interesting. I am done with around half of it, and based on what i have read so far would definitely recommend this book as an introductory course.

The book is presented as a series of lectures and the Q/A from the audience (the big questions) are also made part of the lecture - which i find wonderful.

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