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PsychoDarwinism: PsychoDarwinism The New Synthesis of Darwin & Freud

By Christopher Badcock

From the Preface: “'If my father were alive today, I don't think he would want to be a psychoanalyst.' This remark was made to me more than once by Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's daughter and successor in psychoanalysis, in the year or two before her death in 1982. When on one occasion I asked her what she thought her father would want to be if he were alive today, she was less sure. However, that he would not wish to be a psychoanalyst she was adamant.

This, and other similar remarks by Anna Freud, greatly increased my uncertainty about what I wanted to be when the analysis I had been undergoing withher was abruptly terminated by her death. It had begun in 1979, at a time when she was wel past the maximum age at which the analvtic professionwill allow an analyst to begin an official training analvsis with a student. As a result, I faced the prospect of starting more or less at the beginning if I wished to qualify as a psychoanalyst, and of course with a new training analyst.

London. HarperCollins Publishers. 1995. 218p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

By Philip Rieff

From the Preface: "The Emergence of Psychological Man" was written as a coda to The Mind of the Moralist, it is often assigned to students and read separately now from the main body of the text. I have thought ti important to amplify the concept of psychological manfor a reason stated most succinctly by two historians in their appraisal of my work and its implications. "If the dominant character type of the twentieth century is really what Riff calls 'psychological man,' the consequences for western society are quite incalculable." As a calculus of the incalculable, The Triumph of the Therapeutic is more than amplification of what has gone before; it signifies a beginning as wel as an end. I have tried to say something about the consequences of psychological man for Western society-but not everything, for I do not consider the advance of the social sciences toward a theory of culture yet sure enough to convey such an attempt….

NY. Harper & Row. 1966. 282p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Psychoanalysis And History

Edited by Bruce Mazlish

From the introduction: It was an acute observer of men and matters who once remarked: "If you want to hide something, put it in the most obvious place." For centuries, mankind seems to have followed this advice: in an effort to avoid self-knowledge men ignored not only their dreams but the be- havior of their children, until Sigmund Freud detected the hidden psyche under the disguises of commonplace a n d everyday life. Like Sherlock Holmes, Freud was a master logician and detective, and for him, too, his conclusions when once reached were "elementary."

NY. Grossett & Dunlap. 1963. 224p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Psychological Man

Edited by Robert Boyers

This is a thoroughly revised edition of a volume published by the quarterly SALMAGUNDI (number 20, Summer-Fall 1972). That earlier collection included in its 248 pages the first version of a new work by Philip Rieff entitled "Fellow Teachers," a work which has itself undergone extensive revision and elaboration and which was published independently by Harper and Row late in 1973. A small excerpt from that book is all our present collection can claim. Now Rieff si clearly the commanding presence in this volume, as he was in the earlier periodical version, and thus we have had a major task in 'replacing' the 80-page text of "Fellow Teachers." In a sense, of course, nothing can possibly replace it, but we've feshed out the volume with a number of items that will surely be useful to students of Psychological Man, and essential for students of Rieff's theory of culture.

Lodon. Harper and Row. 1975. 230p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

An Autobiographical Study

By Sigmund Freud

Authorizad Translation by James Strachey. From the cover: Freud's autobiography was originally published in America in 1927, and was therefore known to v er y few English readers. He completely revised and elaborated it for the English edition. It is of the highest interest, not only as the record of the personal life of the founder of psycho-analysis, but also because of the light which it throws on the development of the psycho-analytic movement.

London The Hogarth Press, 42 William Iv St., Wc2 And The Institute Of Psycho-Analysis. 1950. 134p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Beyond The Pleasure Principle

By Sigmund Freud

Translated by James Strachey. From the cover: "The goal of alllife is death." In his study of human motivation, Freud observed that much behavior appears to exist independent of the pleasure principle. His search for this hidden principle led Freud to an examination of the organic instincts of animals, such as the migration of birds. He found that almost invariably these instincts were rooted in the compulsion to return to a previous state, to the womb. Freud's formulation of this principle of the death urge, set forth in BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, was bitterly attacked at first, and it was not until comparatively recent years that science has accepted it as a part of human psychology.

NY. Bantam. 1959. 129p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

The Ego and the Id

Translated by Joan Riviere. Revised and newly edited by James Strachey.

From the cover: The first edition of this book, which is an English translation of Das Ich und das Es (Vienna 1923), was published by the Hogarth Press in 1927. The last of Freud's major theoretical works, it is concerned with mental structure and functioning. Apart from presenting, with new terminology, a threefold division of the mind, it contains important discussions of the concept ‘unconscious' and the genesis of the super-ego. The dichotomy between Eros and the death instinct, introduced in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, is elaborated here; the relations between the two classes of instincts and the divisions of the mind are considered, as well as the interrelations between these divisions themselves with special reference to the sense of guilt. For thepresent edition the translation has been extensively revised and an editor's introduction, two appendices and many explanatory notes and references have been added as well as a full bibliography and index.

London. The Hogarth Press And The Institute Of Psycho-Analysis. 1962. 83p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

The Ego And The Mechanisms Of Defence

By Anna Freud.

Translation by Cecil Baines.

From the cover: The author is the daughter of Professor Sigmund Freud, and in this book she shows expository powers which remind the reader of her famous father. She gives a careful account of that aspect of psychology which has been made a special study in Viennese psycho-analytical circles. It is concerned par ticularly with the non-sexual components of the mind. The ego, in its attempt to deal with the repressed impulses, has recourse to a great variety of defence mechanisms, as they are called, with which to protect itself. The author does not attempt a systematic classification of these defences, but she gives an extremely clear description of their nature and of the complicated ways in which they interact. The book is essentially a clinical one, and the relation of the theoretical knowledge to practical analytic work is constantly kept ni mind. The volume is of very great importance to all who are interested in the progress of psycho-analysis.

London. The Hogarth Press. And The Institute Of Psychoanalysis. 1961. 198p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

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Freud: Political and Social Thought

By Paul Roazen

From the Preface: Since the themes within this book tend to move in several directions at the same time, a few prefatory remarks might help the reader keep the general argument in focus. The title of the book combines those intellectual traditions in which I have grown up. By "Freud" I am referring to his own writings and those of the psychiatric community which can be traced directly to his inspiration. I cannot claim to have examined comprehensively all the new developments in the psychiatry of our time. It is my conviction, however, that the ideas of Freud and his pupils, and what they have to contribute toour understanding of human nature, are important enough in intellectual history to justify treatment as a self-sufficient unit. "Political and Social Thought" in academic life has come to mean a grab bag of moral and legal ideas, in addition to more strictly social and political concepts; it also has a heritage, however, of the most re- spected kind, which begins with the philosophic activities of Plato and Aristotle, and which has over the centuries tried to relate human needs to social life.

Alfred A Knopf. New York. 1968. 342p.

The Future of an Illusion

By Sigmund Freud

Translated by W. D. Robson-Scott. From the cover: Sigmund Freud wrote The Future of an Illusion late in his career, when his interest in psychoanalysis hadex- panded beyond his earlier clinical concerns, and when the problems of civilization itself occupied much of his attention. One of his most controversial and unsettling works, this book is as well one of his most striking con- tributions to the study of mankind. For Freud, religious ideas are born of the need ot make tolerable man's helplessness in his environment and are conceived ni man's memories of the helplessness of his own childhood and the childhood of the human race…

NY. Doubleday Anchor Books. 1953. 112p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Group Psychology And The Analysis Of The Ego

By Sigmund Freud. Translated By James Strachey

From the introduction: “The contrast between individual psychology and social or group psychology, which at a first glance may seem to be full of significance, loses a great deal of its sharp. ness when it is examined more closely. It is true that individual psychology is concerned with the individual man and explores the paths by which he seeks to find satisfaction for his instinctual impulses; but only rarely and under certain exceptional conditions is individual psychology in a position to disregard the relations of this individual to others. In the individ- ual's mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first individual psychology, in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words, is at the same time social psychology as well.”

NY. Bantam. 1960. 126p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Inhibitions Symptoms and Anxiety

By Sigmund Freud.

Translated by Alix Strachey. Revised and newly edited by James Strachey. From the cover: This work si one of the most important contri- butions made by Freud to both the clinical and theoretical aspects of psycho-analysis. It covers awide range of topics, including discussions of the different classes of resistance, the distinction between repression and defence and the relations between anxiety, pain and mourning. Its main theme, however, si the problem of anxiety-its sources, mechanisms and functions -and the author's earlier views on the subject are critically examined and some of his opinions very consider- ably altered. For the present edition the text has been extensively revised, and editor's introduction, two appendices, and many explanatory notes and references have been added as well as a full bibliography and index. The text used has been taken from the new Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Fourteen of the 42 volumes of this edition have so far been issued, and new ones are continually being added. If you would like further details of contents, subscrip- tion price, etc. of the Standard Edition, please write for a detailed prospectus.

London. The Hogarth Press And The Institute Of Psychoanalysis. 1961. 118p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Moses and Monotheism

By Sigmund Freud.

Translated from the German by Katherine Jones. From the cover: This volume contains Freud's speculations on various aspects of religion, on the basis of which he explains certain characteristics of the Jewish people in their relations with the Christians. From an intensive study of the Moses legend. Freud comes to the startling conclusion that Moses himself was an Egyptian who brought from his native country the religion he gave to the Jews. He accepts the hypothesis that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, but that his memory was cherished by the people and that his religious doctrine ultimately triumphed. Freud develops his general theory of monotheism, which enables him to throw light on the development of Judaism and Christianity. "An epoch-making work. Professor Freud here ventures into fields hitherto unexplored. The assumptions and theories contained in this remarkable book are sufficiently counterbalanced by historical facts to warrant its validity."-A. A. Brill, M.D.

New York. Vintage Books, A Division Of Random House. 1939. 189p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

By Sigmund Freud.

Authorized Translation by James Strachey. From the cover: This is the firs tEnglish edition of a classic. In the forty-five years since its original appearance it has completely revolutionized scientific views on sexuality. Freud's discoveries, derived from his penetrating study of his patients and concisely summarized in these Three Essays, are now accepted as the basis of all modern thought on the subject in psychology, psychiatry, education and criminal reform. "One of the pillars on which the edifice of psycho-analysis rests. . . indeed a classic." The Listener.

London. Imago Publishing Company, Limited. 1949. 130p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Totem And Taboo: Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics

By Sigmund Freud.

Authorized translation with an introduction by A. A. Brill, Ph.B., M.D. From the cover: In this brilliant exploratory attempt (written in 1912- 1913) to extend the analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture, Freud laid the lines for much of his later thought, and made a major contribution ot the psychology of religion. Primitive societies and the individual, he found, mutually illuminate each other, and the psychology of primitive races bears marked resemblances ot the psychology of neurotics. Basing his investigations on the findings of the anthropologists, Freud came to the conclusion that totemism and its accompanying restriction of exogamy derive from the savage's dread of incest, and that taboo customs parallel closely the symptoms of compulsion neurosis. The killing of the "primal father" and the consequent sense of guilt are seen as determining events both in the misty tribal pre-history of mankind, and in the suppressed wishes of individual men. Both totemism and taboo are thus held to have their roots in the Oedipus complex, which lies at the basis of all neurosis, and, as Freud argues, is also the origin of religion, ethics, society, and art.

NY. Random House. 1918. 216p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

By Sigmund Freud

Authorized English Edition with Introduction by A .A. BRILL, PH. B., M.D. From the cover: According to Sigmund Freud, the founder of the modern psychoanalytic movement, most common slips of the tongue or annoying errors are reflections of disturbances in our personalities, some ofwhich may be buried so deep that we ourselves are hardly aware of them. In this fascinating and useful volume, he analyzes the unconscious sources of ordinary errors and lapses, and draws frankly on his own experiences, as well as those of his friends and patients, to show that there is nothing accidental in psychic life. This basic handbook by one of the great thinkers of our times offers the layman a stimulating introduction to Freud's philosophy. For students of human behavior, it is required reading.

NY. Mentor Book. 1951. 164p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud

By Ernest Jones

Edited and Abridged by Lionel Trilling and Steven Marcus. From the cover: Here now is Jones's Freud, edited and abridged in a single volume. To accomplish it, the editors have deleted those portions of the original trilogy which dealt principally with the technical as- pects of Freud's work. The result is a new classic for the general reader. Freud's childhood and adolescence; the excitement and trials of his four-year engagement to Martha Bernays, as re- vealed in their love letters; his carly ex- periments with hypnotism and cocaine; the incredible freeing of his creative powers through self-analysis; the slow rise of his reputation and the constant battles against distortion and personal slander; the painful defections of some of his close associates; the years of interna- tional eminence; the onset of the cancer from which he suffered for sixteen years; his seizure by the Gestapo in Nazified Austria; his stoicism in the face of an agonizing death- all this is unfolded ni a book that remains, in the words of The New York Times, "one of the outstanding biographies of the age," and which now emerges as more readable, more affecting, more inspiring than before.

NY. Basic Books. 1957. 565p.

Sigmund Freud Collected Papers. Volume 1

Authorized Translation Under The Supervision Of Joan Riviere

From the editorial preface: “[T]hese Collected Papers, of which the present is the first volume, constitute the real basis of Psycho-Analysis. All Professor Freud's other work and theories areessentially founded on the clinical investigations of which these papers are the only published record. It is unfortunate that the English-speaking public should for years have had access only to what may be called the superstructure of his work, the application of his psycho-analytic method to the study of dreams, sexuality, totemism, and so on, while the basis of it all remained buried in a foreign tongue. It is now proposed to fill this central lacuna in English psycho-analytical literature by publishing, in four or more volumes, a translation of the Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre. Incidentally it may be said that the papers in this series have been re-grouped, in co-operation with Professor Freud, so that they do not follow the same order as that of the German original.”

New York. Basic Books. 1959. 350p.

Sigmund Freud Collected Papers. Volume 2.

Authorized Translation Under The Supervision Of Joan Riviere.

From the editorial preface: “The present volume contains all the other papers written between 1906 and 1924. Many are purely clinical in the narrower sense, such as Hysterical Phantasies, Types of Nosogenesis, Disposition to Obsessional Neurosis, Case of Homosexuality in a Woman, etc.; others concern matters of wider interest, such as the ascertainment of truth in legal proceedings, the sexual enlightenment of children, children's lying,etc., while the first application o fpsycho-analysis to the study of character-development will also be found here.

NY. Basic Books. 1959. 393p.

Sigmund Freud Collected Papers Volume 3

Authorized Translation By Alix And James Strachey.

From Chapter 1. “Tin 1895 and I896 I pu tforward certain views upon the pathogenesis of hysterical symptoms and upon the mental processes occurring in hysteria. Since that time several years have passed. In now proposing, therefore, to substantiate those views by giving a detailed report of the history of a case and its treatment, I cannot avoid making a few introductory remarks, for the purpose partly of justifying from Various points of view the step 1 am takings, and partiy of diminishing teh expectations to which it will give rise. Certainly it was awkward that I was obliged to publish the results of my inquiries without there being any possibility of other specialists testing and checking them, particularly as those results were of a surprising and by no means gratifying character…”

New York Basic Books, Inc. 1959. 584p.