A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisSigmund FreudTranslated by G. Stanley HallThese twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startli... Read more

A General Introduction to PsychoanalysisIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisSigmund FreudTranslated by G. Stanley HallThese 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. These discourses are at the same time simple and almost confidential, and they trace and sum up the results of thirty years of devoted and painstaking research. While they are not at all controversial, we incidentally see in a clearer light the distinctions between the master and some of his distinguished pupils.Part 1 -- The Psychology of ErrorsFirst Lecture IntroductionSecond Lecture The Psychology of ErrorsThird Lecture The Psychology of Errors -- ( Continued )Fourth Lecture The Psychology of Errors -- ( Conclusion )Part 2 -- The DreamFifth Lecture -- Difficulties and Preliminary ApproachSixth Lecture -- Hypothesis and Technique of InterpretationSeventh Lecture -- Manifest Dream Content and Latent Dream ThoughtEighth Lecture -- Dreams of ChildhoodNinth Lecture -- The Dream CensorTenth Lecture -- Symbolism in the DreamEleventh Lecture -- The Dream-WorkTwelfth Lecture -- Analysis of Sample DreamsThirteenth Lecture -- Archaic Remnants and Infantilism in the DreamFourteenth Lecture -- Wish FulfillmentFifteenth Lecture -- Doubtful Points and CriticismPart 3 -- General Theory of the NeurosesSixteenth Lecture -- Psychoanalysis and PsychiatrySeventeenth Lecture -- The Meaning of the SymptomsEighteenth Lecture -- Traumatic Fixation -- The UnconsciousNineteenth Lecture -- Resistance and SuppressionTwentieth Lecture -- The Sexual Life of ManTwenty-First Lecture -- Development of the Libido and Sexual OrganizationsTwenty-Second Lecture -- Theories of Development and Regression -- EtiologyTwenty-Third Lecture -- The Development of the SymptomsTwenty-Fourth Lecture -- Ordinary NervousnessTwenty-Fifth Lecture -- Fear and AnxietyTwenty-Sixth Lecture -- The Libido Theory and NarcismTwenty-Seventh Lecture -- TransferenceTwenty-Eighth Lecture -- Analytical Therapy Less