Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work, which succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.

Part I: The Discovery of Psychoanalysis (1895-1910). Studies on Hysteria (Freud and Breuer, 1895d). Letters to Wilhelm Fliess (1887-1902]). "Project for a Scientific Psychology" (1950c [1895]). "The Neuro-Psychoses of Defence" (1894a); "On the Grounds for Detaching a Particular. Syndrome from Neurasthenia Under the Description 'Anxiety Neurosis'" (1895b); "Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence" (1896b); "Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses" (1898a); "Screen Memories" (1899a). The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a); On Dreams (1901a). The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901b). Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905c). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905d). "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" (Dora) (1905e]). Delusions and Dreams in Jensen’s ‘Gradiva’ (1907a). "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (‘Little Hans’)" (1909b). "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (The ‘Rat Man’) (1909d). Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood (1910c). Part II: The Years of Maturity (1911-1920). "Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" (1911c). Papers on Technique Written Between 1904 and 1919. Totem and Taboo (1912-1913). "On Narcissism: An Introduction" (1914c). Papers on Metapsychology (1915-1917); Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1916-17). "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis" (the "Wolf-Man") (1918b). "The ‘Uncanny’" (1919h). "A Child is Being Beaten (A Contribution to the Study of the Origin of Sexual Perversions)" (1919e). "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality" (1920a). Part III: Fresh Perspectives (1920-1939). Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920g). Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Freud 1921c). The Ego and the Id (1923b). "The Economic Problem of Masochism" (1924c). Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926d). The Future of an Illusion (1927c); The Question of Lay Analysis (1926e). Civilization and its Discontents (1930a); New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933a [1932]). Papers on Denial of Rand Splitting of the Ego (1924-1938); An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940a [1938]). "Analysis Terminable and Interminable" (1937c); "Constructions in Analysis" (1937d). Moses and Monotheism (1939a). Reading Freud Today?

'This book is both a primer and a resource for the specialist. It provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work through analysis of key texts... the volume is an amazing editorial achievement for which readers of Freud should be most grateful.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review'Reading Freud is a significant contribution to the psychoanalytic literature. It is a work that reaffirms the continued value of Freudian thought in an era in which psychoanalytic ideas are under attack. It belongs on the bookshelf of both beginning candidates and experienced psychoanalysts.' - Glen Gabbard, Training Psychoanalyst of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Huston 'A unique aid to the teaching and to the studying of Freud's writing. This book is both imaginative and very instructive, particularly in placing Freud's work in context. A very ingenious colour coding helps the reader to differentiate between Freud's articles under discussion and various additional reflections and comments made from a variety of angles. A real must for anybody seriously interested in Psychoanalysis.' - Anne-Marie Sandler, Training Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, London