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.
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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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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
Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.More
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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
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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
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
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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
The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.More
Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth by reissuing Peter Gay’s best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction.More
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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
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To Freud, individual and social psychology were virtually identical.More
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On three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundamental issues.More
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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
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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
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Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.More
“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
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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
The Standard Edition
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
The Standard Edition
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
The Standard Edition
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
The Standard Edition
Along with the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, this book remains one of Freud's most widely read.More
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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
A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.More
"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineMore
The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More
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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
A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction.More