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Disc 1

  A Very Short Introduction - Freud
1.   Life and character 00:03:01
2.   Freud enrolled in the medical department of the University of Vienna 00:03:07
3.   From the mid - 1890s onward 00:02:15
4.   Like most people with this type of personality 00:03:22
5.   Freud exhibited a number of other obsessional habits and traits 00:02:22
6.   Freud had a lively appreciation of literature 00:02:47
7.   Freud's honesty compelled him substantially to modify or revise his ideas 00:02:22
8.   Excessive generalisation is a temptation for all original thinkers 00:03:50
9.   From trauma to phantasy 00:03:37
10.   These reminiscences were of a special kind 00:02:42
11.   At first, Freud thought of the repressed affect as being always associated with trauma 00:03:45
12.   Freud's next step was to assert that, in many cases of hysteria 00:02:40
13.   For Freud, sex was especially suitable as a linchpin 00:02:45
14.   There were three reasons for Freud's subsequent abandonment of the seduction theory 00:03:09
15.   It is quite possible that psychoanalysts have underestimated 00:01:34
16.   Exploring the past 00:03:18
17.   Freud pictured the infant's sexuality as 'polymorphously perverse' 00:02:47
18.   Of a variety of oral characteristics described 00:02:40
19.   The Oedipus complex 00:02:36
20.   The female version of the Oedipus complex is less clearly worked out 00:03:59
21.   In putting forward his ideas about infantile sexuality 00:02:50
22.   Infantile amnesia 00:02:37
23.   Many common human problems 00:02:47
24.   Free association, dreams and transference 00:01:54
25.   Dreams 00:02:48
26.   Freud regarded dreams as if they were neurotic symptoms 00:03:39
27.   Freud's technique of dream interpretation is notably ingenious 00:02:31

Disc 2

  A Very Short Introduction - Freud
1.   Today, very few psychoanalysts support Freud's theory in its original form 00:02:22
2.   Transference 00:03:35
3.   It is surely because Freud was by nature an impersonal investigator 00:03:05
4.   Ego, super - ego and id 00:03:30
5.   Freud was essentially a dualist 00:03:59
6.   Structure of the mental apparatus 00:02:50
7.   The ego is that part of the mind representing consciousness 00:02:47
8.   The origin of Freud's concept of the super - ego 00:02:21
9.   Aggression 00:02:31
10.   Freud's first full acknowledgement of an aggressive instinct 00:03:23
11.   The death instinct 00:03:28
12.   Aggression, depression and paranoia 00:02:30
13.   Melancholia would today be described as a severe depressive illness 00:03:00
14.   What Freud suggests is illuminating 00:02:38
15.   Today we might describe the person prone to melancholia rather differently 00:04:25
16.   We commented earlier on the accuracy of Freud's description 00:03:22
17.   Jokes and The Psyco - Pathology of Everyday Life 00:04:06
18.   Freud's explanation is extremely ingenious 00:04:18
19.   Art and literature 00:03:30
20.   Since content, rather than style 00:03:12
21.   One cannot blame the art historians 00:04:18
22.   Freud's paper 'The Moses of Michelangelo' 00:04:03
23.   Culture and religion 00:02:01
24.   Totem and Taboo 00:03:13

Disc 3

  A Very Short Introduction - Freud
1.   The ritual totemic meal could be interpreted as a 'return of the repressed' 00:02:43
2.   Some of the same criticisms which have been levelled at Totem and Taboo 00:02:19
3.   Freud believed that religion originated in man's feelings of helplessness 00:03:44
4.   The impression gained from reading Freud 00:04:13
5.   Freud as therapist 00:03:30
6.   Earlier two reasons were given for requiring the patient to lie supine upon a couch 00:02:46
7.   A certain degree of detachment is undoubtedly required of the analyst 00:03:16
8.   Freud advised that most analytic patients should be seen every day 00:03:36
9.   Freud's own cases 00:03:56
10.   Any reader who studies the case of Dora without prejudice 00:03:05
11.   The 'Rat Man' is an entirely different porposition 00:03:00
12.   Freud gave his account of the 'Wolf Man' 00:04:16
13.   The 'Wolf Man' reveals that Freud discussed Dostoevsky with him 00:03:28
14.   Psychoanalysis today 00:03:19
15.   Earlier some aspects of the obsessional personality were outlined 00:04:15
16.   Freud defined the therapeutic aim of pyschoanalysis as follows 00:03:28
17.   Patients who seek psychoanalysis today are rather different 00:04:25
18.   Modern psychoanalysts have recognized the difficulty of defining 00:03:55
19.   The appeal of psychoanalysis 00:03:32
20.   Freud is often linked with Darwin and Marx 00:02:50
21.   Psychoanalysis has often been referred to as a religion 00:04:29
22.   Freudian theory made western man suspicious of conduct 00:04:51

Total Playing Time: 03:55:07

Storr, Anthony

Jason, Neville

Label: Naxos AudioBooks

Genre: Biographies

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: NA329712

Barcode: 9789626342978

Physical Release: 09/2003

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