Publisher's Synopsis
This introduction to Freud is designed to be of interest to the student as well as the lay reader. The book describes the context in which Freud moved and the opposition he encountered. It gives, with quotations, a summary of Freud's revolutionary ideas on hysteria and anxiety, the interpretation of dreams, the unconscious mind, sexuality, the nature of neuroses and the techniques of psychoanalysis as well as his speculations on art, literature and life.
