Peter gay sigmund freud
The Freud Reader
"Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less complex to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other." I'm not really sure how one goes about reviewing Freud, but perhaps I'll start with this rather Nietzchean quote from his Civilization and Its Discontents which stuck with me for whatever reason. No other passage in the book more succinctly describes what was plaguing the renowned cigar smoker his whole life: the human condition. His concession that yes, indeed the human being is predisposed from infancy to live a animation that is constantly torn between eros and thanatos, (Beyond the Pleasure Principle),
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The Freud Reader
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By Sigmund Freud
Edited by Peter Gay
What to read from the huge output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle. Freudian thought permeates virtually every aspect of twentieth-century life; to know Freud is to travel not only his scientific papers—on the psycho-sexual theory of human development, his theory of the thought, and the basic techniques of psychoanalysis—but also his vivid writings on art, literature, religion, politics, and culture.
The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, including Civilization and Its Discontents. Peter Gay, a leading scholar of Freud and his work, has carefully chosen these selections to provide a occupied portrait of Freud's mind. His clear introductions to the selections help mentor the reader's journey through each work.
Many of the selections are reproduced in full. All have been selected from the Accepted Edition, the only English translation for which Freud gave approval both to the editorial plan and to specific renderings of key words
Jed Brendon-Tullett
Perhaps there once was a time when you could happily wet the bed, play with your faeces or your sister, barge into your parents bedroom without knocking and still increase up to be a relatively pulled-together human being unburdened by the weight of repressed guilt. Perhaps. But such a golden age was certainly dead by the turn of this century: killed by Sigmund Freud () who sat, Svengali-like, with notebook in hand behind the celebrated couch in Vienna.
As a minor he too wet his bed and disturbed his parents during a post-luncheon session (he was so upset by his father’s yells that he came assist later and defiantly urinated on the floor whilst his incredulous parents looked on, speechless) and then spent the greater part of his remaining eighty years of life trying to convince everyone that infantile sexuality was at the root of all subsequent adult neuroses. His ghost has hovered over the potty ever since.
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History at Yale and used to be well-known and respected in university circles for his elegant and erudite books on the Enlighte