A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Sigmund Freud

Translated by G. Stanley Hall

These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. These discourses are at the same time simple and almost confidential, and they trace and sum up the results of thirty years of devoted and painstaking research. While they are not at all controversial, we incidentally see in a clearer light the distinctions between the master and some of his distinguished pupils.

Part 1 -- The Psychology of Errors

First Lecture Introduction
Second Lecture The Psychology of Errors
Third Lecture The Psychology of Errors -- ( Continued )
Fourth Lecture The Psychology of Errors -- ( Conclusion )

Part 2 -- The Dream

Fifth Lecture -- Difficulties and Preliminary Approach
Sixth Lecture -- Hypothesis and Technique of Interpretation
Seventh Lecture -- Manifest Dream Content and Latent Dream Thought
Eighth Lecture -- Dreams of Childhood
Ninth Lecture -- The Dream Censor
Tenth Lecture -- Symbolism in the Dream
Eleventh Lecture -- The Dream-Work
Twelfth Lecture -- Analysis of Sample Dreams
Thirteenth Lecture -- Archaic Remnants and Infantilism in the Dream
Fourteenth Lecture -- Wish Fulfillment
Fifteenth Lecture -- Doubtful Points and Criticism

Part 3 -- General Theory of the Neuroses

Sixteenth Lecture -- Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
Seventeenth Lecture -- The Meaning of the Symptoms
Eighteenth Lecture -- Traumatic Fixation -- The Unconscious
Nineteenth Lecture -- Resistance and Suppression
Twentieth Lecture -- The Sexual Life of Man
Twenty-First Lecture -- Development of the Libido and Sexual Organizations
Twenty-Second Lecture -- Theories of Development and Regression -- Etiology
Twenty-Third Lecture -- The Development of the Symptoms
Twenty-Fourth Lecture -- Ordinary Nervousness
Twenty-Fifth Lecture -- Fear and Anxiety
Twenty-Sixth Lecture -- The Libido Theory and Narcism
Twenty-Seventh Lecture -- Transference
Twenty-Eighth Lecture -- Analytical Therapy