About this audiobook
Sigmund Freud introduces psychoanalysis through lectures that move from everyday mistakes and dreams to his account of neurotic symptoms. He asks readers to consider whether actions and experiences that appear accidental might have meanings beyond conscious intention. The argument gradually presents the vocabulary and methods through which he interprets mental conflict.
Freud develops his ideas through examples, objections and explanations addressed to an audience encountering an unfamiliar approach. Repression, unconscious wishes and the importance he assigns to childhood become parts of a larger theoretical account. The lectures show how he connects observations of ordinary life with questions arising from his work with patients.
The book offers an encounter with Freud's historical thinking rather than a guide to diagnosing oneself or others. Its interest lies in following an influential argument about interpretation, resistance and the limits of conscious self-knowledge, including the assumptions on which that argument depends.
