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General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud

Chapter 1 of 29 Preface

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17 h 52 min
Language
English
Readers
Bruce Pirie, Daisy Flaim, Martin Reyto, Mike Pelton, Peter Tucker and 4 others
Translated by
Granville Stanley Hall

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These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number of students of psychoanalysis in this country but by the yet larger number of those who wish to begin its study here and elsewhere. (From the Preface)