The origins of psycho-analysis : Letters to Wilhelm Fliess, drafts and notes: 1887-1902 / Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Fliess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freud, Sigmund, author.

Fliess, Wilhelm, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 486 pages)

Other Title:

origins of psycho-analysis

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 1954.

Summary:

"This book consists of a selection of letters from Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician and biologist, written between the years 1887 and 1902. The letters, with other documents left by Fliess, came into the hands of a second-hand dealer during the Nazi period in Germany and thus into the editors' possession. Fliess's letters to Freud have not been found. The published letters are numbered in order of date, and the notes and drafts are designated by letters of the alphabet. The letters are nearly all dated by the author, or alternatively the date is established by the postmark. In the few cases where drafts or notes are undated they have been inserted by the editors in what appears to be the correct chronological order by reason of their contents. Omissions have been indicated by dots. This volume contains nothing sensational, and is principally intended for the reader and serious student of Freud's published works"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Introduction by Ernst Kris

Wilhelm Fliess's Scientific Interests

Psychology and physiology

Infantile sexuality and self-analysis

Psycho-analysis as an independent science end of the relationship with Fliess

Letters 1-11

(Draft A) problems

(Draft B) aetiology of the neuroses

Letter 12

(Draft C) report on work in progress

Letters 13-18

(Draft D) on the aetiology and theory of the major neuroses

(Draft E) how anxiety originates

Letters 19-20

(Draft F) collection III

Letter 21

(Draft G) melancholia

(Draft H) paranoia

Letter 22

(Draft I) migraine: established points

Letters 23-38

(Draft J) Frau P.J. age 27

Letters 39

(Draft K) neuroses of defence (christmas fairy tale)

Letters 40-61

(Draft L) notes I

Letters 62-63

(Draft M) notes II

Letter 64

(Draft N) notes III

Letters 65-153

Project for a scientific psychology.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Basic Books, viewed May 31, 2023).