Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis: Course of twenty-eight lectures delivered at the University of Vienna
Jun 2026 · Good Press
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Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis presents, in twenty-eight lucid lectures first delivered at the University of Vienna, a systematic exposition of the emerging science of psychoanalysis. Freud introduces dreams, slips of the tongue, neuroses, repression, sexuality, and the unconscious with a style at once didactic, polemical, and intellectually dramatic. Positioned at the crossroads of medicine, psychology, and modernist thought, the book translates difficult clinical insights into accessible argument while preserving the speculative boldness that made psychoanalysis one of the defining discourses of the early twentieth century. Freud, the Viennese neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, drew these lectures from decades of clinical observation and theoretical innovation. His work with hysterics, his self-analysis, and his engagement with fin-de-siècle debates about sexuality, memory, and pathology all inform this volume. The lectures reflect Freud's desire not merely to defend a controversial method, but to educate students and the wider public in a radically new conception of mental life. This book is indispensable for readers interested in the history of ideas, psychology, literature, and cultural theory. It rewards both newcomers and specialists as a clear gateway into Freud's thought and as a landmark text in modern intellectual history.
Sigmund Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis presents, in twenty-eight lucid lectures first delivered at the University of Vienna, a systematic exposition of the emerging science of psychoanalysis. Freud introduces dreams, slips of the tongue, neuroses, repression, sexuality, and the ...
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