The Essentials Of Psycho-analysis

In this selection of her father’s writings, Anna Freud has defined and included, in a single volume, the essential, irreducible elements of psychoanalysis. She begins with Freud’s own introductory essay, The Question of Lay Analysis, and follows themes such as the meaning of dreams, the concept of the unconscious, instinctual and sexual life, the structure of the personality, defense mechanisms, and symptom formation. Her lucid commentaries supplement her father’s writing in the authorized translations by James Strachey, providing a coherent and authoritative guide to psychoanalysis.