The Ego and the Id (Unabridged)

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

This Nook version of The Ego and Id by Sigmund Freud has been custom-formatted for Nook devices and checked for typos. It includes a complete interactive table of contents. In The Ego and Id, Freud extrapolates the dynamics of the human psyche as expressed through the ego, id, and superego. All human behaviour and traits, Freud explains, are determined by conflicts and interplay between these psychological elements. Freud explains the nature and origins of this psychological landscape and its mechanisms. The Ego and Id is a seminal work of Sigmund Freud and is a canon of modern Freudian psychology.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149672714
Publisher:	Sigmund Freud PGI
Publication date:	01/02/1950
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	413 KB

About the Author

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. He was appointed a university lecturer in neuropathology in 1885 and became an affiliated professor (professor extraordinarius) in 1902. In creating psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud’s redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind. Sigmund Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt. In his later work Sigmund Freud developed a wide-ranging interpretation and critique of religion and culture.