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Pelican PB reprint edition.
These two accounts form the best possible introduction to psycho-analysis for the general reader, for whom they were originally prepared. When Sigmund Freud was invited to lecture in America in 1909 he expounded, for the first time at any length, the results of his work in Vienna over many years. He described in these Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis his abandonment of hypnosis and his adoption, in order to disclose repressed complexes, or 'free association', the interpretation of dreams, and the explanation of apparently haphazard actions and errors. He devoted one lecture to the fundamental subject of sexuality and spoke of the transference in analysis. When, in 1926, he came to write The Question of Lay Analysis, in defence of a non-medical colleague accused of 'quackery', he had grealty developed his theory of the structure of the mind, with its 'ego' and its 'id', and this pamphlet provides a lively and clear description of psycho-analysis and its relation to the orthodox medicine. James Strachey has added a short sketch of Freud's life to this Pelican edition of his standard translation.
