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By Sigmund Freud. Translated from the German by A. A. Brill

“Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex” by Sigmund Freud is a foundational text in psychoanalytic theory, exploring the complexities of human sexuality. The book is divided into three main sections:

1. Sexual Aberrations: Freud discusses deviations in sexual object choice and sexual aim, including homosexuality, fetishism, and sadomasochism. He argues that these deviations are not inherently pathological but are variations of the normal sexual impulse.

2. Infantile Sexuality: Freud introduces the concept of infantile sexuality, asserting that sexual impulses are present from birth and undergo various developmental phases. He describes the stages of sexual development in children, including the oral, anal, and phallic stages, and emphasizes the importance of early childhood experiences in shaping adult sexuality.

3. Transformations of Puberty: This section examines the changes that occur during puberty, leading to the mature sexual organization. Freud discusses the role of the genital zones, the development of sexual object choice, and the integration of various sexual impulses into a coherent sexual identity.

Throughout the book, Freud emphasizes the significance of unconscious processes and the impact of early experiences on later sexual development. He also introduces key concepts such as the Oedipus complex, repression, and sublimation, which have become central to psychoanalytic theory.

NY. Dutton. 1962. 126p.

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By Sigmund Freud And William C. Bullitt

Summary of the key points of this enlightening book::

Early Life and Influences

• Father’s Influence: Wilson’s father, Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, profoundly shaped his character. Wilson’s intense admiration and love for his father led to a strong desire for achievement and recognition.

• Psychological Mechanisms: The study explores Wilson’s use of repression, identification, and sublimation to manage his conflicting desires, particularly his aggressive and passive feelings towards his father.

Adolescence and Identification

• Increased Masculinity: During adolescence, Wilson’s masculinity increased, intensifying his aggressive feelings towards his father.

• Identification with Gladstone: Wilson admired British statesman William Gladstone, seeing him as an “incomparable father” figure. This identification helped him express his aggression towards his real father while maintaining love for him.

Adulthood and Career

• Struggles and Ambitions: Wilson faced physical ailments and frequent nervous breakdowns, often linked to unresolved inner conflicts. His ambition to become a statesman was influenced by his admiration for figures like Gladstone and Bright.

• Marriage and Stability: His marriage to Ellen Axson provided emotional stability and support, acting as a mother representative.

Presidency of Princeton

• Reforms and Conflicts: As President of Princeton, Wilson implemented significant reforms but faced intense conflicts, particularly with Dean Andrew F. West. These conflicts were driven by his repressed hostility towards his father.

• Impact of Father’s Death: The death of his father necessitated new outlets for his libido, leading to increased speech-making, passionate friendships, and religious activities.

Political Career and Presidency

• Legislative Achievements: Wilson’s political career saw significant legislative achievements, driven by his powerful Super-Ego and sense of divine mission.

• World War I: Wilson’s approach to World War I was shaped by his personal beliefs and psychological conflicts. He struggled to balance his desire for peace with the aggressive actions of Germany.

Psychological Struggles and Health

• Health Issues: Throughout his life, Wilson’s health issues, including neuritis, indigestion, and headaches, were closely linked to his psychological state.

• Key Relationships: His relationships with key figures, such as Colonel House and Joe Tumulty, provided both support and additional sources of conflict.

Peace Negotiations and Legacy

• Treaty of Versailles: Wilson’s efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace were challenged by the demands of the Allies. His compromises led to a treaty that many viewed as unjust.

• Decline and Death: Wilson’s health deteriorated significantly during his second term, culminating in a severe stroke in October 1919. His final years were marked by a sense of betrayal and a focus on his earlier achievements at Princeton.

Overall, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of Wilson’s character, emphasizing the interplay between his unconscious desires, psychoanalytic mechanisms, and the external influences that shaped his life and career.

Houghton Mifflin Company Boston. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1966. 317p.

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Edited By Mary Higgins And Chester M. Raphael

“Reich Speaks of Freud” is a collection of interviews and documents that delve into Wilhelm Reich’s relationship with Sigmund Freud, his work in psychoanalysis, and his subsequent development of his own theories. Here are the key points and themes from the book:

Overview: The book includes detailed interviews conducted by Kurt R. Eissler in 1952, where Reich discusses his experiences with Freud and his views on psychoanalysis.

Documentary Supplement: This section contains letters and documents that provide additional context to Reich’s professional and personal life, his conflicts within the psychoanalytic community, and his ideological struggles.

Key Themes

1. Relationship with Freud:

• Reich admired Freud and considered him a pioneer in understanding the human psyche.

• He discusses Freud’s personal struggles, including his health issues and the impact of his Jewish background on his work.

• Reich felt that Freud’s later theories, such as the death instinct, were a departure from his earlier, more revolutionary ideas.

2. Development of Psychoanalytic Theory:

• Reich contributed significantly to psychoanalytic theory, particularly with his work on character analysis and the concept of orgastic potency.

• He believed that Freud’s focus on the unconscious and libido was groundbreaking but felt that Freud did not fully explore the biological basis of these concepts.

3. Conflict and Controversy:

• Reich faced significant opposition from the psychoanalytic community, particularly regarding his views on sexuality and his political activities.

• He was critical of the psychoanalytic establishment for what he saw as their reluctance to embrace the full implications of Freud’s discoveries.

4. Sex-Economy and Orgone Energy:

• Reich developed the theory of sex-economy, which linked psychological health to sexual satisfaction and the free flow of biological energy.

• He introduced the concept of orgone energy, a universal life force, which he believed could be harnessed for therapeutic purposes.

5. Political and Social Views:

• Reich was deeply involved in social and political issues, advocating for sexual freedom and criticizing authoritarian structures.

• His Marxist views influenced his approach to psychoanalysis, leading to further conflicts with more conservative members of the psychoanalytic community.

NY. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1967. 321p.

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Authorized Translation Under The Supervision Of Joan Riviere.

From the editorial preface: This volume illustrates again the difficulty of classifying papers which range oversuch a variety of topics. The first eight constitute a unity in a way in which the others donot. They treat of mental processesfrom the point of view which Professor Freud has described as metapsychological, a term which is perhaps not too happily chosen. By this he means the consideration of a given mental process in what he regards as the most complete manner possible, that is, when treated topographically, dynamically a n d economic- ally; he would not be satisfied unless it proved capable of being treated from these three points of view. From this series we might single out theessay on The Unconscious for special attention….

NY. Basic Books. 1959. 495p.

By Sigmund Freud

From the Editorial Note: The bulk of the contents of this Fifth Volume of Freud's Collected Papers is made up of his shorter writings published since the issue of the Fourth Volume in 1925. The opportunity has, however, been taken of including a number of carlier papers which, for various reasons, were omitted from the firsť four volumes of this series. Finally, a selection has also been included of his very scanty posthumous works, which were published in German under the title of Schriften aus dem Nachlassin I94I. About a dozen of the papers included in this volume (Nos. II A, B and C, III, IV, V, VIII B, IX, XIV, XXIX and XXXII) now appear for the first time in English. Of the remainder, the majority were first published in English in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, while a few have been collected from other sources. ÁIl of these have been revised and in a number of instances (Nos. VI, VIII A, C and D, XIX, XXII and XXV) fresh translations have been made for the present volume. The whole of the material has been arranged, with one or two small exceptions, in chronological order. Details of the origin of each paper will be found in a footnote at its beginning, and a complete list of references appears at the end of the whole book. As in the earlier volumes in the series, the translator's name is appended to each paper.

Published by BasicBooks, Inc. by arrangement withThe Hogarth Press Ltd and The Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. 1959. 390p.

By Frank J. Sulloway

From the cover: In this monumental itellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a "biologist of the mind" and, indeed, that his most ereative inspirations derived significantly from biology. Sulloway analyzes the political aspects of the complex myth of Freud as "psychoanalytic hero" as it served to consolidate the analytic movement. This is a revolutionary reassessment of Freud and psychoanalysis.

NY. Basic Books. 1979. 636p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

BY Sigmund Freud

From the cover: A twentieth century classic. If any work in the twentieth century ean be sald to have revolution- ized the patterns of modern thaught and scientific inquiry, it si THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS. Freud himself sald: "It contains the most valuableof al the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make.” This translation by James Strachey is the definitive one incorporatIng al the alterations, additions, and deletions Freud made over a thirty-year period. The detailed commentary and scrupulous cross referencing enable the reader to understand clearly the development of Freud's thought. The publication of THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS marked the real beginning of psychoanalysis and of the pervasive psychoanalytic view of man and society.

NY. Avon Books. 1965. 773p. CONTAINS MARK-UP

By Sigmund Freud. Translated by James Strachey.

Written not long before World War 2, in this brief and brilliant essay Freud catalogues the vicissitudes and dynamics of human nature and the societies and cultures that result.

NY. W.W.Norton. 1930. 102p. CONTAINS MARK-UP