Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9853 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-29
• Original language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the most informing voices of the twentieth century.

Customer Reviews

A tricky one
As this book is original work of Freud, there is a lot of technical language and can be quite hard to follow. However if you can work out the meanings within this book, then it is a very useful one. Its really down to ones personal preference.