Selected Writings of Freud's Later Works

Author: Freud
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book selects three mature works from Sigmund Freud's later period: "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego," and "Ego and Id." These three works concisely express the key points of psychoanalytic theory and reflect the essence of Freud's doctrine. The first essay analyzes the "principle of compulsion to repeat," which governs psychological processes, explores the origins of instincts and desire, and proposes the hypothesis of the death instinct. The second essay applies psychoanalytic principles to study human social relationships. The third essay briefly argues for the three major theoretical pillars of psychoanalysis: the distinction between consciousness and the unconscious, the dynamic model of human structure, and the hypothesis of the life instinct and the death instinct. Freud's doctrine has had a significant impact on Western academia for decades, and this book helps Chinese readers understand Freud's doctrine.