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  • Simply Freud

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  • By: Stephen Frosh
  • Narrated by: Matthew Lyon
  • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Simply Freud

By: Stephen Frosh
Narrated by: Matthew Lyon
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Born into a Jewish family in the Moravian town of Freiberg, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) entered the University of Vienna at the age of 17 and began his medical career in 1882. Following an 1885 fellowship in Paris, during which he learned about the use of hypnosis to treat hysteria, he embarked on the incredible journey of discovery that would lead to the creation of the “talking cure” and, ultimately, a whole new way to think about human consciousness and experience.

In Simply Freud, Professor Stephen Frosh offers an engaging and accessible introduction to Freud and his major ideas, including the unconscious, sexual repression, free association, and the interpretation of dreams. At the same time, he reminds us that Freud was also a person - ambitious, conflicted, amorous, irritable, blind about some things, prophetically insightful about others. His personality shaped the way psychoanalysis developed, and Professor Frosh shows how the dreams he had, the jokes he told, and the patients he worked with all contributed to the formation of his landmark work.

With its vivid portrait of life in 19th-century Vienna - and the enormous social and political upheavals that provided the context for Freud’s work - Simply Freud is an invaluable overview of the life and times of the man whose revolutionary insights remain crucial for our understanding of central aspects of our world.

©2018 Stephen Frosh (P)2018 Simply Charly
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“Frosh is the ideal guide on Freud - clear-eyed, cogent and compelling. An essential book.” (Anthony Elliott, research professor of sociology and dean of external engagement, University of South Australia)

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