Authors: Anthony Storr
ISBN-13: 9780192854551, ISBN-10: 0192854550
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Green College, Oxford
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-century since his death, can we assess his true legacy to current thought. As an experienced psychiatrist himself, Anthony Storr offers a lucid and objective look at Freud's major theories, evaluating whether they have stood the test of time, and in the process examines Freud himself in light of his own ideas. An excellent introduction to Freud's work, this book will appeal to all those broadly curious about psychoanalysis, psychology, and sociology.
Storr's brief, elegant, and interesting book coolly surveys what we might term the house of Freud and finds almost everything flawed...yet he does not dispute that the builder of the shaky house was a genius.
Acknowledgements | ||
List of illustrations | ||
1 | Life and character | 1 |
2 | From trauma to phantasy | 17 |
3 | Exploring the past | 29 |
4 | Free association, dreams, and transference | 40 |
5 | Ego, super-ego, and id | 57 |
6 | Aggression, depression, and paranoia | 69 |
7 | Jokes and The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life | 82 |
8 | Art and literature | 91 |
9 | Culture and religion | 105 |
10 | Freud as therapist | 117 |
11 | Psychoanalysis today | 132 |
12 | The appeal of psychoanalysis | 142 |
Further reading | 157 | |
Index | 161 |