The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume 20: An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay

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Volume 20 of the Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud - An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925 - 1926) An Autobiographical Study, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, Lay Analysis and Other Works (1925 - 1926) This collection of twenty-four volumes is the first full paperback publication of the standard edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud in English Includes- An Autobiographical Study (1924) Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1925) The Question of Lay Analysis (1926) Psycho-Analysis (1925) Address to the Society of B'nai B'rith (1926) Shorter Writings (1926)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Moravia. Between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna. In 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year. His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the twentieth century.

He was possessed of exceptional literary gifts. There can be no question that he was a great writer: to read him is to be beguiled by him... His influence on all of us was enormous, and it would be as impossible to return to a pre-Freudian way of thinking as to return to a pre-heliocentric theory of the solar system * The Times *