396 p. ; 22 cm
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
β Scribed by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 314
- Series
- Norton Library
- Edition
- The Standard Edition
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches. In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work Π²Πβalong with a note on the individual volumeΠ²Πβby Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale.
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