A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, credited to Sigmund Freud, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. (Translated by Granville Stanley Hall.) Read in English by librivox volunteers. 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. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number of students of psychoanalysis in this country but by the yet larger number of those who wish to begin its study here and elsewhere. (From the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
• Author credits: Sigmund Freud
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 17:52:22

Catalogue topics

• psychoanalysis
• psychology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 8:44
2. 01 - Introduction — 24:41
3. 02 - The Psychology of Errors — 33:28
4. 03 - The Psychology of Errors Continued — 46:07
5. 04 - The Psychology of Errors Conclusion — 53:15
6. 05 - Difficulties and Preliminary Approach — 42:45
7. 06 - Hypothesis and Technique of Interpretation — 31:31
8. 07 - Manifest Dream Content and Latent Dream Thought — 30:34
9. 08 - Dreams of Childhood — 25:48
10. 09 - The Dream Censor — 25:53
11. 10 - Symbolism in the Dream — 52:01
12. 11 - The Dream-Work — 30:20
13. 12 - Analyses of Sample Dreams — 34:08
14. 13 - Archaic Remnants and Infantilism in the Dream — 31:55
15. 14 - Wishful Fulfillment — 38:02
16. 15 - Doubtful Points and Criticism — 31:42
17. 16 - Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry — 35:20
18. 17 - The Meaning of the Symptoms — 41:35
19. 18 - Traumatic Fixation - The Unconscious — 33:01
20. 19 - Resistance and Supression — 40:25
21. 20 - The Sexual Life of Man — 41:17
22. 21 - Development of the Libido and Sexual Organizations — 46:55
23. 22 - Theories of Development and Regression - Etiology — 42:12
24. 23 - The Development of the Symptoms — 48:31

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