An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, Freud S., 1959

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, Freud S., 1959.

   An Outline of Psycho-Analysis is the last book which Sigmund Freud wrote before his death. A masterpiece of clarity and conciseness, it has a unique value in relation to the body of Freud’s work; it is both a manual for the layman of the fundamental tenets of psycho-analysis, and a summary of the principles arrived at after a lifetime of research and experiment in the science.
The aim ofthe book, writes Freud in the Foreword, is ‘to bring together the doctrines of psycho-analysis and to state them, as it were, dogmatically—in the most concise form and in the most positive terms’. That aim is brilliantly achieved and the three sections of the book — The Mind and its Workings, The Practical Task and The Theoretical Yield—combine to form an essential text for all those who wish to understand Freud’s life-work and the basic principles of his psycho-analysis.




THE PSYCHICAL APPARATUS.
Psycho-analysis makes a basic assumption,1 the discussion of which falls within the sphere of philosophical thought, but the justification of which lies in its results. We know two things concerning what we call our psyche or mental life: firstly, its bodily organ and scene of action, the brain (or nervous system), and secondly, our acts of consciousness, which are immediate data and cannot be more fully explained by any kind of description. Everything that lies between these two terminal points is unknown to us and, so far as we are aware, there is no direct relation between them. If it existed, it would at the most afford an exact localization of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help towards understanding them.

Our two hypotheses start out from these ends or beginnings of our knowledge. The first is concerned with localization. We assume that mental life is the function of an apparatus to which we ascrib£ the characteristics of being extended in space and of being made up of several portions—which we imagine, that is, as being like a telescope or microscope or something of the sort. The consistent carrying through of a conception of this kind is a scientific novelty, even though some attempts in that direction have been made previously.

Contents.
Translator’s Preface.
Introductory Note.
PART I THE MIND AND ITS WORKINGS.
Chapter I The Psychical Apparatus.
Chapter II The Theory of the Instincts.
Chapter III The Development of the Sexual Function.
Chapter IV Mental Qualities.
Chapter V Dream-Interpretation as an Illustration.
PART II THE PRACTICAL TASK.
Chapter VI The Technique of Psycho-Analysis.
Chapter VII An Example of Psycho-Analytical Work.
PART III THE THEORETICAL YIELD.
Chapter VIII The Psychical Apparatus and the External World.
Chapter IX The Internal World.



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