The Unconscious - Penguin Modern Classics
Sigmund Freud
Paperback (29 Sep 2005)


Categories: Psychology Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology) States Of Consciousness


Publishers Synopsis

One of Freuds central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.

This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism.


Book information

ISBN: 9780141183886
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 29 Sep 2005
DEWEY: 154.2
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 105
Weight: 114g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 9mm