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The Problem of Anxiety
On three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundatmental issues. Setting forth in rich detail Freud's new theory of anxiety, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) is evidence for one of them. In rethinking his earlier work on the subject, Freud saw several types of anxiety at work in the mind and here argues that...more
Hardcover, 127 pages
Published
1936
by The Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press and W.W. Norton & Co
(first published 1925)
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This short book is far more interesting than its title might suggest.
I'm going to be looking at some of the more famous books about anxiety in the coming months. I started with this one and I immediately didn't think I was going to get much out of it, but damn it was just godawful. The problem with this is the same problem I and most people have had with Freud since virtually his entrance into psychological studies. He tries over and over again to explain everything with half baked ideas and mythology that just don't fit as bluntly as he would like. His psychoana...more
German edition - German review:
Nicht gerade das leichteste von Freuds Werken. Im gegensatz zum flüssigen, leicht nachvollziehbaren Stil vieler anderer Schriften, ist dieses Werk sehr dicht und abstrakt. Kein Lesevergnügen und allen, die sich eher aus kulturwissenschaftlichen, denn aus psychoanalytischen Gründen für Freuds Theorie interessieren ist hiervon eher abzuraten. Der Theoriegewinn liegt mehr in den Details und in den begrifflichen Differenzierungen gegenüber früheren Schriften.
Nicht gerade das leichteste von Freuds Werken. Im gegensatz zum flüssigen, leicht nachvollziehbaren Stil vieler anderer Schriften, ist dieses Werk sehr dicht und abstrakt. Kein Lesevergnügen und allen, die sich eher aus kulturwissenschaftlichen, denn aus psychoanalytischen Gründen für Freuds Theorie interessieren ist hiervon eher abzuraten. Der Theoriegewinn liegt mehr in den Details und in den begrifflichen Differenzierungen gegenüber früheren Schriften.
I first read this in a college course, and found his body of work to be eye opening and thought provoking--although not all that easy to read--I would never have guessed that I would go on to be a psychiatrist, but he rocked my world
Often overlooked, this concise exploration of origins and manifestations of anxiety is often brilliant and provocative. Freud explores the basic properties of fear, anxiety, and touches on the sexual component of these human states of mind/body. Freud hypothesizes that the origin of anxiety is founded in the repressed memory of the human's separation from the mother's originary nutrition during the act of birth. All manifestations of anxiety are (in essence) a resurgence of this primal fear. Thi...more
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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression. He is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life which is directed toward a wide variety of objec...more
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