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Strachey, James

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Works: 359 works in 1,425 publications in 12 languages and 32,922 library holdings
Roles: Editor, Translator, Author of introduction, Creator, Other
Classifications: bf173, 150.1952
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26 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 1,921 libraries worldwide
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51 editions published between and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,855 libraries worldwide
In 1915 at the University of Vienna 60-year-old Sigmund Freud delivered these lectures on psychoanalysis, pointing to the interplay of unconscious and conscious forces within individual psyches. In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions. Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work --along with a note on the individual volume--by Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale. --Publisher.
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293 editions published between and 2001 in English and Spanish and held by 1,619 libraries worldwide
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25 editions published between and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,594 libraries worldwide
A translation of a 1929 text in which Freud summarized his views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective.
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33 editions published between and 2006 in English and German and held by 1,459 libraries worldwide
Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter-and how a young acquaintance mangled a quotation from Virgil through fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant-it brings together a treasure trove of muddled memories, inadvertent actions, and verbal tangles. Amusing, moving, and deeply revealing of the repressed, hypocritical Viennese society of his day, Freud's dazzling interpretations provide the perfect introduction to psychoanalytic thinking in action. -http://www.amazon.com
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33 editions published between and 2006 in English and German and held by 1,451 libraries worldwide
Freud's New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis takes full account of his elaborations in, and changes of mind about, psychoanalytic theory, and discusses a variety of central and controversial themes, including anxiety, the drives, occultism, female sexuality, and the question of a Weltanschauung. It serves as indispensable companion to the Introductory Lectures. -Back cover.
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22 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 1,348 libraries worldwide
In 1923, in this volume, [the author] worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. [This book] ranks high among the works of [his] later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world. -Back cover.
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35 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 1,319 libraries worldwide
This is Freud's scientific analysis of religion. Religion, along with government and social, moral and ethical codes, or, civilization act as removing man from his true instinctal and destructive nature into a civil society. Religion is a neccessary illusion derived from men's wishes.
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60 editions published between and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,221 libraries worldwide
Freud's additions, deletions, and alterations are included in this translation of his psychoanalytic study of the function, sources, nature, and characteristics of dreams.
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5 editions published between and 1959 in English and held by 1,196 libraries worldwide
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40 editions published between and 2010 in English and German and held by 1,168 libraries worldwide
The eminent Austrian psychologist's investigation of self-destructive forces at work within the human consciousness.
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9 editions published between and 2006 in English and German and held by 853 libraries worldwide
[In this volume, Sigmund Freud] succeeded admirably: the theory of the dream as distorted wish fulfillment is there, as are, in full deployment, the mechanisms of the dreamwork. -Back cover.
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24 editions published between and 2007 in English and German and held by 847 libraries worldwide
Freud's groundbreaking, troublemaking theory of sexuality-infantile (developmental), adolescent (transformational), and deviant-in the classic Strachey translation, with a new foreword by Nancy Chodorow, who re-animates it from the postmodern perspectives of feminist psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender. --Publisher.
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16 editions published between and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 700 libraries worldwide
[In this volume], Freud's study of the history of the psychonanlytic movement is a powerful polemic and makes plain beyond cavil the "total incompatibility" of Freud's ideas with the ideas of two of his most prominent defectors, Alfred Adler and Carl G. Jung. But beyond this, the "History" is a responsible first survey of the history of the movement that Freud had started single handed almost tow decades before. -Back cover.
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18 editions published between and 1990 in English and French and held by 662 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in Multiple languages and English and held by 543 libraries worldwide
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18 editions published between and 2007 in English and German and held by 478 libraries worldwide
Freud offers here intimate glimpses of his loyalty to his Jewish origins, his brilliance in school, his love for research, his sense of isolation during the years of breaking through to psycho-analysis. For the most part, however, he concentrates on his intellectual development rather than his inner life. -Back cover.
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5 editions published in in English and held by 438 libraries worldwide
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16 editions published between and 2011 in English and German and held by 411 libraries worldwide
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26 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 389 libraries worldwide
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest works, when first published in 1913, this book caused outrage. It remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch.
 
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An outline of psychoanalysis
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English (1,234)
German (122)
Spanish (37)
Undetermined (21)
Italian (12)
Multiple languages (3)
Dutch (3)
French (2)
Japanese (2)
Slovenian (1)
Portuguese (1)
Korean (1)
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