Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental 'discoveries' of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In [...]

Having got his medical degree from the University of Vienna in the year 1881, he set out to do research into cerebral palsy, aphasia, and microscopic neuro-anatomy. He also served as a lecturer and an affiliated professor. Freud was considered a great philosopher and writer too. He is the author of [...]

This is a magnificent version of Freud's masterwork, presented in a lavish illustrated style. It includes Freud's groundbreaking text plus an introduction and 16 essays by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Exquisite art from Dali, Rousseau, Francis Bacon and many other Modernist and Surrealist artists appe[...]

In 1899 Freud wrote a revolutionary work in the new field of Psychoanalysis called, The Interpretation of Dreams. The book was so full of technical details and involved so many case studies, however, that ordinary people had great difficulty understanding it. Twenty-one years later, he published thi[...]