Gesammelte Werke

Freud's religious unbeliefs are too easily dismissed as the standard scientific rationalism of the twentieth-century intellectual, yet he scorned the high-minded humanism of his contemporaries. In Mass Psychology and Analysis of the 'I' he explores the notion of 'mass-psychology' - his findings would prove all too prophetic in the years that followed. Writings such as A Religious Experience and The Future of an Illusion continue earlier work on the essential savagery of the civilized mind, and...

The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud's writing. It covers the themes that Freud explored in his work from the meaning of dreams and the concept of the unconscious, instinctual and sexual life to the structure of the personality. Beautifully written and endlessly fascinating, the pieces collected here are the perfect guide to the principle concepts of psycho-analysis.

Freuds Lebenswerk kompakt und verstandlich: Der seelische Apparat und die Funktion der einzelnen Instanzen, Triebleben und Sexualentwicklung, die Bedeutung der Traume, das Un- und das Vorbewusste, der Odipus-Komplex und weitere zentrale Elemente seiner Lehre kommen in diesem 'Abriss' zur Sprache.

This is Freud"s groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient"s dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his real problem - that of infantile neurosis brought about by a sexual complex and an Oedipal fixation.