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Sigmund Freud

This month, ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â features volumes from The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, newly added to the platform. The long-awaited 24-volume set adds a new layer of revisions, translations, and explanatory annotations under the executive editorship of neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, and Freud scholar Mark Solms. Explore the volumes below to learn more about what’s covered in the set.

Volume 4: The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) 1900

Freud reviews the world literature on dreams and comes to the conclusion that they are valid psychological acts, with purpose and meaning. Through a deep analysis of his own dreams, he concludes that every dream is an attempt to fulfill a repressed infantile wish, and thereby to protect sleep. In this volume, we see Freud’s first description of ‘dream-work’, which includes such key processes as condensation, displacement and regression.

Volume 7: A Case of Hysteria, Three Essays on Sexuality and Other Works 1901–1905

This volume contains Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, in which Freud formulates an entirely novel conception of human sexual development and behaviour. It opens, however, with another, equally momentous work: ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’. This was Freud’s first full-length report of a case of psychoanalytic treatment, in which he developed his theory of transference.

Volume 14: On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement, Papers on Metapsychology and Other Works 1914–1916

‘On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement’ opens this volume. By the time of its writing in 1914, Freud had parted company from Jung and Adler, despite both of the latter still claiming that their theories were psychoanalytical. Therefore, Freud set out in this work to plainly describe his psychoanalytic method in its own fundamentals and postulates, showing how Jung’s Analytical Psychology and Adler’s Individual Psychology diverge from it, and arguing that to designate all three theories as ‘psychoanalysis’ was far too confusing.

Volume 19: The Ego and the Id and Other Works 1923–1925

This volume contains one of Freud’s most enduring works, The Ego and the Id, a robust revision of his topographical model of the human psyche and the development of his later structural model of the mind in subsequent psychoanalysis. Freud explores the internal tensions between the ego and id, the ego and superego and the life and death drives, all of which are at odds with his earlier distinctions between consciousness and unconsciousness. The internal and external forces that give rise to the superego have a powerful effect on the ego, leading to shame and guilt.

Volume 23: Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psychoanalysis and Other Works 1937–1939

Moses and Monotheism was one of Freud’s more controversial books which would also become his final major work. An early version was written in 1934, but unpublished due to concerns about the response from the Catholic Church. It was finally published in the shadow of World War II, during Freud’s exile in London. Taken together, the three essays assert that Moses was Egyptian royalty, murdered by his followers, and that their repressed collective guilt over this act led to a recommitment to biblical monotheistic religion.

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