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One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way beyond the institutional/clinical market and presents material to the reader in a new way.
This volume will contain NEW INTRODUCTORY LECTURES IN PSYCHOANALYSIS and AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1938
And yet, more than a century before the emergence of psychoanalysis, the frenchman Diderot testified to the significance of the Oedipus complex, expressing the difference between the primitive age and the civilised one in this sentence: If the little savage were left to his own devices such that he retained all his imbecility, and such that he joined to his childish paucity of reason the violent passions of a man of thirty, then he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother (Rameau’s Nephew). Even if psychoanalysis could boast of no other achievement than uncovering the repressed Oedipus complex, I would venture to say that this alone would give its claim to be classified among the most valuable of new acquisitions of mankind. —An Outline of Psychoanalysis, Part Two, Chapter 7
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The purpose of this brief essay is to offer as it were a dogmatic conspectus of psychoanalysis by bringing together all its doctrines in the most concentrated and clear-cut form. Obviously it is not intended to convert or to convince you.. —An Outline of Psychoanalysis