Essentials of Psycho-Analysis

In this selection of her father's writings Anna Freud has defined and included in a single volume the essential irreducible elements of psychoanalysis. She begins with the most appropriate of Freud's own introductory essays <i>The Question of Lay Analysis</i> and follows the sequence of themes that he adopted in that work--the meaning of dreams the concept of the unconscious instinctual and sexual life the structure of the personality defense mechanisms and symptom-formation. The result with her own lucid commentaries supplementing her father's writing in the authorized translations by James Strachey is a coherent manageable and authoritative guide to the principal themes and concepts of psycho-nalysis.