The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud

• is perhaps the most accessible of Freud’s books. An intriguing introduction to psychoanalysis, it shows how subconscious motives underlie even the most ordinary mistakes we make in talking, writing, and remembering. records Freud’s revolutionary inquiry into the meaning of dreams and the power of the unconscious. is the seminal work in which Freud traces the development of sexual instinct in humans from infancy to maturity. expands on the theories Freud set forth in . It demonstrates how all forms of humor attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind. extends Freud’s analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture. makes clear the ultimate incompatibility of Freud’s ideas with those of his onetime followers Adler and Jung.