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Title: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Penguin Classics) by Sigmund Freud, Anthea Bell, Paul Keegan ISBN: 0-14-243743-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy for the lay reader to understand
Comment: The republication of this authorized English edition which appeared in 1914 will enable libraries to replace aging volumes with a fresh, affordable paperwork. This remains one of Freud's most widely recognized titles, blending anecdotal accounts with his personal experience and psychological insights. His first-person, chatty tone makes it easy for the lay reader to understand his concepts of underlying psychological influences.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Unconscious' work trough parapraxes (faulty actions)
Comment: This book may be read as a necessary sequel to Freud's major opus The Interpretation of Dreams, cause the object of the two are the same, that is, to demonstrate trough a lot of very detailed personal and third person's examples, how the unconscious work, or even better, how it betrays itself trough its concealed (condensed and displaced) actions shown in our parapraxis of everyday. Parapraxis is a term which could be translated into faulty acts, which are, for instance, "slips of the tongue", "slips of the pen", misreadings, mislayings of objects, undeliberate forgetness of sentences, names and places, etc ...
The book is written in a very casual style and one is again admired how could such a genius as Freud convey his ideas in such an easy style.
Why no 4 stars? Because I think this book is not so fascinating as The Interpretation of Dreams, an opus which deserves 5 stars.
Rating: 1
Summary: Quack Quack
Comment: While I am willing to admit that some forgetfulness, slips of speech, and other actions have unconscious motives, (ex. I actually misplaced this book, apparently so I wouldn't have to read it), I don't see how all such acts can be classified as neurotic efforts at repression. Is Freud saying that a fully conscious person would never make a mistake?
Freud shatters all scientific crediblity by admitting near the end of the book that, of couse, we can't recognize or assertain the meaining behind every dream, mistake, or superstition, (like psychoanalysis). Freud writes,
"To substantiate the general validity of the theory, it is enough if one can penetrate only a certain distance into the hidden associations." pg. 161
This is kind of like substantiating the theory of relativity by saying it's enough to know that two plus two equals four.
Freud was an egotistical person, who spewed venom towards critics, and apostates to his theory, (look at what he has to say about Adler in a letter to Jung). Much of that ego plays forth here, when he speaks of psychoanalysis as a proven fact, rather than something to be seriously questioned and studied.
My misplacing of this book was less an unconscious act than a conscious one, I really found the reading dry at times and some of the examples pulled out of thin air, (if you keep free associating long enough, you can make anything in the universe connect to anything else, don't believe me? Play the Kevin Bacon game.)
I eventually did find my lost copy, and it was in the last place I would look for it....my reading table.
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Title: The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud, Joyce Crick, John Carey ISBN: 0142437441 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Wolfman and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud, Louise Adey Huish ISBN: 014243745X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Schreber Case: Sigmund Freud ; Translated by Andrew Webber, With an Introduction by Colin McCabe by Sigmund Freud, Andrew Webber ISBN: 0142437425 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud, Adam Phillips, David McLintock, Hugh Haughton ISBN: 0142437476 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud ISBN: 0380010003 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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