Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian-born neurologist who pioneered the treatment of mental illness through psychoanalysis, a dialogue between the physician and the patient. His contribution to the world of psychology and psychiatry has been vast and his influence widespread and profound. He published many seminal works that have long since become classics, and Freud’s famous collection of lectures, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, first appeared in print in 1920.
This collection is made up of twenty-eight lectures divided into three parts: “The Psychology of Errors,” “The Dream,” and “A General Theory of the Neuroses.” Each section contains not only detailed information from the results of Freud’s research but also anecdotal evidence and many examples drawn from Greek mythology, Shakespeare, and other classics of Western literature and from the thoughts of philosophers, both ancient and modern.
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