Description
Title: Unconscious, The
Author: FREUD SIGMUND
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/09/2005
Imprint: PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
One of fifteen new translations of Freud’s key writings, this project, under the general editorship of Adam Phillips, reimagines one of the modern era’s greatest writers
One of Freud’s central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141183886
Weight: 113g
Dimension: 198mm X 130mm
Pages: 144
Edition: 01