![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. ![]() Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud, has put together this selection to provide a full portrait of Freud's thought. It contains fifty-one key texts, spanning Freud's entire career from early case histories through his work on dreams, essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilisation and Its Discontents. Gay takes seriously Freuds claim that he was an atheist and argues that atheism was an essential stance for the making of psychoanalysis. What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. In this book, the eminent historian and Freud scholar Peter Gay enters the long-running controversy about the relationship between religion and psychoanalysis. Introductions to the texts are provided by Peter Gay, who has also written a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture. The Freud Reader by Peter Gay (Editor), Sigmund Freud (Author) The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. Containing 51 texts which span Freud's entire career, from early case histories, through his work on dreams and essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings (including "Civilisation and Its Discontents"), this book brings together his ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. ![]()
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