A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, SIGMUND FREUD

Freud's timeless lectures on psychoanalytic thought, dream interpretation, and his theory of the neuroses are presented here in their authoritative translation to English by G. Stanley Hall. 'A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis' is widely held to be the seminal work introducing Freud's central ideas about the psyche. Large parts of the work are from lectures given during the First World War and the entire book is an important explanation of Freud's investigative work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Designed to introduce the enthusiastic layman to the psychoanalytic techniques Freud spent decades developing and refining, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis ranges across several key tenets of Freudian thought. Several lectures concern the means by which dreams may be interpreted as an insight into the state of the patient's psyche, with symbols and distant memories particularly cited.