Psychoanalysis · Viennese neurology · 1856–1939
Sigmund Freud
Reading in dreams and symptoms the wishes we do not know we have.
Příbor · Vienna · London
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
A place to begin
From dream to hidden wish
Follow Freud’s method from the specimen dream of Irma’s injection to the thesis that dreams fulfil wishes and to the mechanisms that disguise them.
The Interpretation of DreamsGoing further
Rethinking sexuality from childhood
Examine how the Three Essays separate the drive from its object, place the origins of sexuality in childhood and trace its reorganisation at puberty.
Three Essays on the Theory of SexualityGoing further
Civilization, aggression and guilt
Trace the argument of Civilization and Its Discontents from the oceanic feeling to aggression, the super-ego and the sense of guilt as the price of culture.
Civilization and Its DiscontentsContinue