The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud
The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud
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The Unconscious
Penguin Classics

Author: Sigmund Freud, Graham Frankland, Mark Cousins

Narrator: Michael Pennington

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019


Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Michael Pennington, one of the founders of the English Shakespeare Company, known for his stage work with the RSC, and who played Carl Jung in the BBC drama, Freud. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Mark Cousins.

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.

This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.

About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century, Freud's theories have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. Freud's fundamental idea was that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy. His first major work was The Interpretation of Dreams, which established the importance of the psychoanalytical movement. His other writings include Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Future of an Illusion, The Ego and the Id, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nadia on July 21, 2020

My goodness, this must have been one of the most tedious readings of my life. “The Unconscious” is a theoretical collection of Freud’s definitions on...well the unconscious. If you expect to gain any practical knowledge around our inner minds, you’d need to search elsewhere. Ironically, when I was abo......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on March 23, 2020

I really enjoy learning about Freud, although some of this book I had to read a few times but it’s fascinating. He did a lot of amazing things for the study of mental illness. Worth a read :)......more

Goodreads review by Laramzp on February 22, 2025

Seite 44 sagt er Loch ist Loch......more

Goodreads review by Pranay on October 30, 2023

Acute observations on the nature of the ego and the machinations of the unconscious, mixed with bro asserting with complete conviction that everyone secretly wants to smash their mom......more

Goodreads review by Gabo on December 10, 2020

En este libro Freud explica lo que significa el Inconsciente. En los capítulos se detalla el aparato psíquico: utiliza las siglas Cc para referirse al sistema consciente, Prcc para hablar del sistema preconsciente y Icc para el sistema inconsciente. Que básicamente se pueden simplificar como: Yo, Sup......more