Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety

by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (Editor), Peter Gay (Introduction)

Overview

On three or four occasions in his career as a psychoanalytic theoretician, Freud changed his mind on fundamental issues.

Setting forth in rich detail Freud's new theory of anxiety, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) is evidence for one of them. In rethinking his earlier work on the subject, Freud saw several types of anxiety at work in the mind and here argues that anxiety causes repression, rather than the other way around.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393008746
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/1990
Series:	Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud
Edition description:	The Standard Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	503,667
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.

Peter Gay (1923—2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.