The Penguin Freud Reader

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Freud as 'reader' - Rated
This is worthwhile purchase. As Adam Philips says in his introduction: 'it is the aim of 'The Penguin Freud Reader' not to introduce people to pychoanalysis as a therapy, which can only be done by trying it out; nor to provide a comprehensive selection of Freud's writing, which would merely reveal more about the selector than the selected; nor to take it for granted that a 'great writer' is here on show, when Freud himself had so much to tell us and did so much to ironize our wishes for greatness. It is, rather, the aim of this Reader to enable the curious, who are by definition not the converted, to discover what, if anything, is so haunting about Freud's writing.'

Less a review, than info on the contents... - Rated
It's a good overview of Freud's work, and as the information is nowhere to be found on the internet, I thought it might be useful to list the contents so people could see what was actually included in it:-

An Outline of Psychoanalysis
The Splitting of the Ego in Defence Processes
Letter to Romain Rolland (A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis)
Constructions in Analysis
Fetishism
Negation
Note on the 'Magic Notepad'
'Psychoanalysis' and 'Libido Theory'
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (The 'Wolfman')
Mourning and Melancholia
Lapses
Observations on Love in Transference
On the Psychology of the Grammar-school boy
On the Introduction of Narcissism
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
from: Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life
Formulations on the Two Principles of Psychic Functioning
Family Romances
Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality
Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora)
Screen Memories
Humour