Author(s): Storr, Anthony
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Biographies
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA329712
Barcode: 9789626342978
Release Date: 09/2003

STORR, A.: Freud - A Very Short Introduction (Abridged)

Sigmund Freud revolutionised the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships, Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud’s legacy today and the disputes that surround it. The first of several releases from Oxford University Press’s highly successful Very Short Introduction series. A popular and direct introduction.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Storr, Anthony - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
1Life and character03:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Freud enrolled in the medical department of the University of Vienna03:07
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3From the mid-1890s onward02:15
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4Like most people with this type of personality03:22
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5Freud exhibited a number of other obsessional habits and traits02:22
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6Freud had a lively appreciation of literature02:47
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7Freud's honesty compelled him substantially to modify or revise his ideas02:22
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8Excessive generalisation is a temptation for all original thinkers03:50
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9From trauma to phantasy03:37
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10These reminiscences were of a special kind02:42
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11At first, Freud thought of the repressed affect as being always associated with trauma03:45
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12Freud's next step was to assert that, in many cases of hysteria02:40
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13For Freud, sex was especially suitable as a linchpin02:45
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14There were three reasons for Freud's subsequent abandonment of the seduction theory03:09
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15It is quite possible that psychoanalysts have underestimated01:34
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16Exploring the past03:18
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17Freud pictured the infant's sexuality as 'polymorphously perverse'02:47
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18Of a variety of oral characteristics described02:40
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19The Oedipus complex02:36
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20The female version of the Oedipus complex is less clearly worked out03:59
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21In putting forward his ideas about infantile sexuality02:50
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22Infantile amnesia02:37
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23Many common human problems02:47
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24Free association, dreams and transference01:54
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25Dreams02:48
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26Freud regarded dreams as if they were neurotic symptoms03:39
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27Freud's technique of dream interpretation is notably ingenious02:31
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Disc 2
1Today, very few psychoanalysts support Freud's theory in its original form02:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Transference03:35
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3It is surely because Freud was by nature an impersonal investigator03:05
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4Ego, super-ego and id03:30
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5Freud was essentially a dualist03:59
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6Structure of the mental apparatus02:50
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7The ego is that part of the mind representing consciousness02:47
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8The origin of Freud's concept of the super-ego02:21
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9Aggression02:31
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10Freud's first full acknowledgement of an aggressive instinct03:23
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11The death instinct03:28
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12Aggression, depression and paranoia02:30
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13Melancholia would today be described as a severe depressive illness03:00
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14What Freud suggests is illuminating02:38
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15Today we might describe the person prone to melancholia rather differently04:25
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16We commented earlier on the accuracy of Freud's description03:22
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17Jokes and The Psyco-Pathology of Everyday Life04:06
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18Freud's explanation is extremely ingenious04:18
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19Art and literature03:30
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20Since content, rather than style03:12
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21One cannot blame the art historians04:18
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22Freud's paper 'The Moses of Michelangelo'04:03
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23Culture and religion02:01
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24Totem and Taboo03:13
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Disc 3
1The ritual totemic meal could be interpreted as a 'return of the repressed'02:43
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2Some of the same criticisms which have been levelled at Totem and Taboo02:19
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3Freud believed that religion originated in man's feelings of helplessness03:44
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4The impression gained from reading Freud04:13
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5Freud as therapist03:30
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6Earlier two reasons were given for requiring the patient to lie supine upon a couch02:46
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7A certain degree of detachment is undoubtedly required of the analyst03:16
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8Freud advised that most analytic patients should be seen every day03:36
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9Freud's own cases03:56
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10Any reader who studies the case of Dora without prejudice03:05
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11The 'Rat Man' is an entirely different porposition03:00
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12Freud gave his account of the 'Wolf Man'04:16
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13The 'Wolf Man' reveals that Freud discussed Dostoevsky with him03:28
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14Psychoanalysis today03:19
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15Earlier some aspects of the obsessional personality were outlined04:15
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16Freud defined the therapeutic aim of pyschoanalysis as follows03:28
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17Patients who seek psychoanalysis today are rather different04:25
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18Modern psychoanalysts have recognized the difficulty of defining03:55
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19The appeal of psychoanalysis03:32
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20Freud is often linked with Darwin and Marx02:50
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21Psychoanalysis has often been referred to as a religion04:29
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22Freudian theory made western man suspicious of conduct04:51
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Total Playing Time: 03:55:07