Book description
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how
unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious,
from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the
unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the
fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn
between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often
find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why
certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of
our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly
illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939.
As a writer and doctor he remains one of the most informing voices of
the twentieth century.
