Beyond the Pleasure Principle, published in 1920, by world-renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud, marks a major turning point in the author's theoretical approach. Prior to this work, Freud's examination of the forces that drive people focused primarily on the sexual drive, or Eros of man, the life instinct to reproduce that is innate in all humans. Freud had attributed most of human behavior to the seeking of sexual pleasure. In reasoned progression...

There exists, of course, few more famous figures in the field of psychology than Sigmund Freud. As the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, his impact on the field of psychology cannot be overstated. Based on a series of lectures given at the University of Vienna in 1915, "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" builds upon Freud's earlier work...

There exist, of course, few more famous figures in the field of psychology than Sigmund Freud. As the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, his impact on the field of psychology cannot be overstated. This short work, "Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis", is a collection of a series of lectures given by Freud at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of...

Sigmund Freud founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology and was particularly well known for his focus on the unconscious mind. Freud believed that the interpretation of dreams were sources of insight in unconscious desires and the unconscious mind. In "Dream Psychology" we have an exploration of Freud's theories on the interpretation of dreams and through the reading of the following nine chapters of this book readers will gain a better understanding...

Un concierto para voces ocultas es el resultado de más de una década de trabajo psicoterapéutico compartido por los autores. Se trata de un método de psicoterapia psicoanalítica focal que permite al paciente mirarse a sí mismo desde la perspectiva de ser uno y varios a la vez. Es una suerte de viaje hacia el encuentro con uno mismo que ocurre en el marco de la relación paciente-terapeuta. El modelo se basa en tres conceptos: el sí-mismo, el...

The authoritative edition of early psychiatric studies by Jung, which foreshadow much of his later work Psychiatric Studies gathers writings on descriptive and experimental psychiatry that Jung published between 1902 and 1905, early in his career as a psychiatrist. The book opens with a study that foreshadows much of his later work and is indispensable to all serious students of his psychiatric career. This is his medical-degree dissertation, "On...

Extracted from Volume 8. Includes the title essay and "On Psychic Energy."

Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures. "[These essays] reveal the breadth of the great psychiatrist's interests and the rigorous originality with which he attacked diverse manifestations of human creativity."

En un escenario dominado por la amnesia y el sonambulismo, las alucinaciones y las ensoñaciones, el sujeto burgués, cuya identidad parecía tan sólida, se revela habitado por máscaras que escapan a cualquier dominio, presa de un desdoblamiento que jamás podrá recomponerse. Al final, la identidad del sujeto occidental resulta ser una figura sombría y constitutivamente doble, que vive solo en sus carencias y sus olvidos, en sus pérdidas y sus...

An authoritative collection of Jung's writings on contemporary events, including The Undiscovered Self and Flying Saucers Civilization in Transition features Jung's writings on contemporary events, especially the relation between the individual and society. In the earliest essay, "The Role of the Unconscious" (1918), Jung advanced the theory that World War I was a psychological crisis originating in the collective unconscious of individuals. In other...