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)
1 Life and character 03:01
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2 Freud enrolled in the medical department of the University of Vienna 03:07
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3 From the mid-1890s onward 02:15
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4 Like most people with this type of personality 03:22
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5 Freud exhibited a number of other obsessional habits and traits 02:22
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6 Freud had a lively appreciation of literature 02:47
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7 Freud's honesty compelled him substantially to modify or revise his ideas 02:22
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8 Excessive generalisation is a temptation for all original thinkers 03:50
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9 From trauma to phantasy 03:37
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10 These reminiscences were of a special kind 02:42
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11 At first, Freud thought of the repressed affect as being always associated with trauma 03:45
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12 Freud's next step was to assert that, in many cases of hysteria 02:40
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13 For Freud, sex was especially suitable as a linchpin 02:45
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14 There were three reasons for Freud's subsequent abandonment of the seduction theory 03:09
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15 It is quite possible that psychoanalysts have underestimated 01:34
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16 Exploring the past 03:18
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17 Freud pictured the infant's sexuality as 'polymorphously perverse' 02:47
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18 Of a variety of oral characteristics described 02:40
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19 The Oedipus complex 02:36
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20 The female version of the Oedipus complex is less clearly worked out 03:59
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21 In putting forward his ideas about infantile sexuality 02:50
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22 Infantile amnesia 02:37
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23 Many common human problems 02:47
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24 Free association, dreams and transference 01:54
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25 Dreams 02:48
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26 Freud regarded dreams as if they were neurotic symptoms 03:39
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27 Freud's technique of dream interpretation is notably ingenious 02:31
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Disc 2
1 Today, very few psychoanalysts support Freud's theory in its original form 02:22
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2 Transference 03:35
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3 It is surely because Freud was by nature an impersonal investigator 03:05
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4 Ego, super-ego and id 03:30
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5 Freud was essentially a dualist 03:59
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6 Structure of the mental apparatus 02:50
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7 The ego is that part of the mind representing consciousness 02:47
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8 The origin of Freud's concept of the super-ego 02:21
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9 Aggression 02:31
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10 Freud's first full acknowledgement of an aggressive instinct 03:23
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11 The death instinct 03:28
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12 Aggression, depression and paranoia 02:30
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13 Melancholia would today be described as a severe depressive illness 03:00
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14 What Freud suggests is illuminating 02:38
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15 Today we might describe the person prone to melancholia rather differently 04:25
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16 We commented earlier on the accuracy of Freud's description 03:22
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17 Jokes and The Psyco-Pathology of Everyday Life 04:06
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18 Freud's explanation is extremely ingenious 04:18
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19 Art and literature 03:30
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20 Since content, rather than style 03:12
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21 One cannot blame the art historians 04:18
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22 Freud's paper 'The Moses of Michelangelo' 04:03
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23 Culture and religion 02:01
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24 Totem and Taboo 03:13
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Disc 3
1 The ritual totemic meal could be interpreted as a 'return of the repressed' 02:43
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2 Some of the same criticisms which have been levelled at Totem and Taboo 02:19
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3 Freud believed that religion originated in man's feelings of helplessness 03:44
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4 The impression gained from reading Freud 04:13
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5 Freud as therapist 03:30
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6 Earlier two reasons were given for requiring the patient to lie supine upon a couch 02:46
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7 A certain degree of detachment is undoubtedly required of the analyst 03:16
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8 Freud advised that most analytic patients should be seen every day 03:36
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9 Freud's own cases 03:56
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10 Any reader who studies the case of Dora without prejudice 03:05
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11 The 'Rat Man' is an entirely different porposition 03:00
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12 Freud gave his account of the 'Wolf Man' 04:16
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13 The 'Wolf Man' reveals that Freud discussed Dostoevsky with him 03:28
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14 Psychoanalysis today 03:19
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15 Earlier some aspects of the obsessional personality were outlined 04:15
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16 Freud defined the therapeutic aim of pyschoanalysis as follows 03:28
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17 Patients who seek psychoanalysis today are rather different 04:25
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18 Modern psychoanalysts have recognized the difficulty of defining 03:55
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19 The appeal of psychoanalysis 03:32
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20 Freud is often linked with Darwin and Marx 02:50
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21 Psychoanalysis has often been referred to as a religion 04:29
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22 Freudian theory made western man suspicious of conduct 04:51
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