A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

The medulla oblongata is a very serious and lovely object. When I was in college, I used to get in long and rather aimless arguments with a friend about Freud. The funny thing is, both of us agreed that Freud was fundamentally wrong about most things. The argument was, rather, whether Freud was w......more

Freud was sometimes wrong and sometimes right but you can not ignore him at any time. He has changed the discourse of classical thinking about a certain phenomenon. Introductory psychoanalysis lectures portrait the pretty pictures of his imagination and beliefs with the help of psychological theories......more

Near his life's end he recorded [on audio] these words:"I started my professional activity trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. In the end I succeeded, but the......more

Freud was a genius. That in no way means he was always right. But you ignore him at your peril if you are interested in understanding the human condition.......more

One is not advised to just jump into Freud, as I did, taking little account of the order of his publications. He revised his theories too often. I was fortunate to read this series of lectures early on, although I would have been even more fortunate to have read his earlier work on hysteria first. He......more