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Peter Gay

Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.

Books by Peter Gay

  1. Book CoverAn Autobiographical Study

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.
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  2. Book CoverBeyond the Pleasure Principle

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    In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.More

  3. Book CoverCivilization and Its Discontents


    Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.More

  4. Book CoverCivilization and Its Discontents

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    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.More

  5. Book CoverThe Ego and the Id

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    In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.More

  6. Book CoverThe Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism


    The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world.More

  7. Book CoverFive Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.More

  8. Book CoverThe Freud Reader


    The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.More

  9. Book CoverFreud: A Life for Our Time


    Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth by reissuing Peter Gay’s best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction.More

  10. Book CoverThe Future of an Illusion

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.More

  11. Book CoverGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

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    To Freud, individual and social psychology were virtually identical.More

  12. Book CoverInhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety

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    On three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundamental issues.More

  13. Book CoverIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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    In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches.More

  14. Book CoverJokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

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    Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.More

  15. Book CoverLeonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

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    Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.More

  16. Book CoverModernism: The Lure of Heresy


    “Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review More

  17. Book CoverNew Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.More

  18. Book CoverOn Dreams

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    Aware that his Interpretation of Dreams was a long and difficult book, Freud decided that he must offer a version that would be briefer and easier to follow.More

  19. Book CoverOn the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.More

  20. Book CoverAn Outline of Psycho-Analysis

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    Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.More

  21. Book CoverThe Psychopathology of Everyday Life

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    Along with the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, this book remains one of Freud's most widely read.More

  22. Book CoverThe Question of Lay Analysis

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    Freud believed that a medical education was not necessarily useful to, and might even impede, the psychoanalyst, but he met strenuous resistance among his followers, particularly in the United States.More

  23. Book CoverSavage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks


    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.More

  24. Book CoverSchnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914


    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineMore

  25. Book CoverThe Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud


    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More

  26. Book CoverTotem and Taboo

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    Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.More

  27. Book CoverWeimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider


    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction.More