 Sigmund Freud: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFESigmund Freud's PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE is largely responsible for the integration of psychoanalytic vocabulary into the popular lexicon. Terms such as Oedipal conflicts and sibling rivalry, narcissism and Freudian slips, can be attributed to the wide popularity of t his volume first translated into English by A.A. Brill in 1914.Authorized by Freud as the official translator of his works into English, Brill was successful in disseminating Freud's ideas to a wide audience: by 1935 sixteen printings of this translation had been issued, with many more to follow. The straightforward style of PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE brought the work tremendous appeal. Freud uses non-technical language to describe the nature and unconscious causes of faulty actions that occur in everyday life such as slips of the tongue or acts of forgetting. Through fascinating and humorous stories drawn from his own experiences and those of patients and friends, Freud details and analyzes a multitude of these actions - termed "parapraxes" - in chapters such as "Forgetting of Proper Names" and "Erroneously Carried-Out Actions." Retail Price: $99.00 |
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