| Description |
xiii, 119 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to the inquiry -- The pleasure principle -- Meaning and determinism and the search for anomalies -- Conscious and unconscious, repression, and development -- Developmental analysis as investigatory tool studies -- Getting lost in someone else's story : "Creative witers and daydreaming" (1908) -- Why we laugh at something funny : Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905) -- The experience of the "uncanny" : "The 'Uncanny'" (1908) -- The paradox of surprise in the face of certainty : "A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis" (1936) -- What makes choice difficult when it is : a Freud-inspired excursion -- Mourning and mental health -- "On transience" (1916), "Mourning and melancholia" (1917) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Pleasure principle (Psychology)
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Psychoanalysis.
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| LC no. |
2009053392 |
| ISBN |
1442204036 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1442204052 (electronic) |
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9781442204034 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781442204058 (electronic) |
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