One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes way beyond the institutional/clinical market and presents material to the reader in a new way.
'Freudian psychoanalysis changed the self-image of the Western mind' - Roy Porter
No discovery has done more to shape modernity than Freud's theory of the unconscious and the part it plays in determining the course of our conscious lives. In psychoanalysis, Freud created a therapeutic tool by which the deepest anguish and desires of the psyche could be revealed.
Yet this vital and rewarding field has remained a mystery to many, and the widespread use of its terminology in everyday life can serve only to confuse matters further. Introductory Lectures and An Outline of Psychoanalysis take us back to Freud's own account of his theories, and his wish to be the most lucid and inspiring advocate of psychoanalysis.
