Sigmund Freud - The Psychology of Love

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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitlers invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year. His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology; and after ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) he invented what was to become psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients through talking, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freuds life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but also the whole intellectual climate of the twentieth century.

Jeri Johnson is a Fellow in English at Exeter College, Oxford. She has written on textual theory, feminist literary theory, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and has also edited Joyces Ulysses.

Shaun Whiteside was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and Kings College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a First in Modern Languages. His translations from French, German, Dutch and Italian include Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy, Beatrice and Her Son by Arthur Schnitzler and The Confusions of Young Trless by Robert Musil, all of which have been published by Penguin.

Adam Phillips was formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is the author of several books on psychoanalysis including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Darwins Worms, Promises, Promises and Houdinis Box.

SIGMUND FREUD

The Psychology of Love

Translated by Shaun Whiteside with
an Introduction by Jeri Johnson

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Bruchstck einer Hysterie-Analyse first published in 1905 (Basle) in
Monatschrift fr Psychiatrie und Neurologie

Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie first published in 1905 (Leipzig, Vienna)

ber infantile Sexualtheorien first published in 1908 (Frankfurt-am-Main) in
Sexual-Probleme (Mutterschutz)

ber einen besonderen Typus der Objektwahl beim Manne first published in
1910 (Leipzig, Vienna) in Jahrbuch fr psychoanalytische und
psychopathologische Forschungen

ber die allgemeinste Erniedrigung des Liebeslebens first published in 1912
(Leipzig, Vienna) in Jahrbuch fr psychoanalytische und psychopathologische
Forschungen

Das Tabu der Virginitt first published in 1918 (Leipzig) in Sigmund Freud,
Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre

Ein Kind wird geschlagen: Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Entstellung sexueller
Perversionen first published in 1919 (Leipzig) in Internationale Zeitschrift fr
rztliche Psychoanalyse

ber die weibliche Sexualitt first published in 1931 (Leipzig) in Internationale
Zeitschrift fr rztliche Psychoanalyse

This translation published in Penguin Classics 2006
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Sigmund Freuds German texts collected in Gesammelte Werke (194052)
copyright Imago Publishing Co., Ltd, London, 1905, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1918, 1919, 1931
Translation and editorial matter copyright Shaun Whiteside, 2006
Introduction copyright Jeri Johnson, 2006
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The moral rights of the translator and author of the Introduction have been asserted

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