A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOANALYSIS IBD

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Introduction to PsychoanalysisáoráIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysisá(German:áVorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse) is a set of lectures given byáSigmund Freud, the founder ofápsychoanalysis, in 1915-1917 (published 1916-1917). The 28 lectures offer an elementary stock-taking of his views of theáunconscious,ádreams, and theátheory of neurosesáat the time of writing, as well as offering some new technical material to the more advanced reader.The lectures became the most popular and widely translated of his works.áHowever, some of the positions outlined ináIntroduction to Psychoanalysisáwould subsequently be altered or revised in FreudâÇÖs later work, and in 1932 he offered a second set of seven lectures numbered from 29-35 -áNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysisá- as complement (though these were never read aloud and featured a different, sometimes more polemical style of presentation.)In his three-partáIntroductory Lectures, by beginning with a discussion ofáFreudian slipsáin the first part, moving on to dreams in the second, and only tackling the neuroses in the third, Freud succeeded in presenting his ideas as firmly grounded in the common-sense world of everyday experience.áMaking full use of the lecture-form, Freud was able to engage in a lively polemic with his audience, constantly engaging the reader/listener in a discussion, so as to take on their views and deal with their possible objections.[4]áThe work allows the reader acquainted with the concepts of Freud to trace the logic of his arguments afresh and follow his conclusions, backed as they were with examples from life and from clinical practice. But Freud also identified elements of his theory requiring further elaboration, as well as bringing in new material, for example onásymbolismáand primaláfantasies,átaking up with the latter a train of thought he would continue in his re-working ofáThe Wolfman.In theáNew Introductory Lectures, those on dreams and anxiety/instinctual life offered clear accounts of FreudâÇÖs latest thinking,áwhile the role of theáSuperegoáreceived an update in lecture 31.áMore popular treatments ofáoccultism, psychoanalytic applications and its status as a science helped complete the volume.