Freud - STORR: Freud, A Very Short Introduction

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A Very Short Introduction - Freud (more info)
Composed by: Anthony Storr
Neville Jason, reader


1. Life and character - 3:01
2. Freud enrolled in the medical department of the University of Vienna - 3:07
3. From the mid-1890s onward - 2:15
4. Like most people with this type of personality - 3:22
5. Freud exhibited a number of other obsessional habits and traits - 2:22
6. Freud had a lively appreciation of literature - 2:47
7. Freud's honesty compelled him substantially to modify or revise his ideas - 2:22
8. Excessive generalisation is a temptation for all original thinkers - 3:50
9. From trauma to phantasy - 3:37
10. These reminiscences were of a special kind - 2:42
11. At first, Freud thought of the repressed affect as being always associated with trauma - 3:45
12. Freud's next step was to assert that, in many cases of hysteria - 2:40
13. For Freud, sex was especially suitable as a linchpin - 2:45
14. There were three reasons for Freud's subsequent abandonment of the seduction theory - 3:09
15. It is quite possible that psychoanalysts have underestimated - 1:34
16. Exploring the past - 3:18
17. Freud pictured the infant's sexuality as 'polymorphously perverse' - 2:47
18. Of a variety of oral characteristics described - 2:40
19. The Oedipus complex - 2:36
20. The female version of the Oedipus complex is less clearly worked out - 3:59
21. In putting forward his ideas about infantile sexuality - 2:50
22. Infantile amnesia - 2:37
23. Many common human problems - 2:47
24. Free association, dreams and transference - 1:54
25. Dreams - 2:48
26. Freud regarded dreams as if they were neurotic symptoms - 3:39
27. Freud's technique of dream interpretation is notably ingenious - 2:31

A Very Short Introduction - Freud (more info)
Composed by: Anthony Storr
Neville Jason, reader


1. Today, very few psychoanalysts support Freud's theory in its original form - 2:22
2. Transference - 3:35
3. It is surely because Freud was by nature an impersonal investigator - 3:05
4. Ego, super-ego and id - 3:30
5. Freud was essentially a dualist - 3:59
6. Structure of the mental apparatus - 2:50
7. The ego is that part of the mind representing consciousness - 2:47
8. The origin of Freud's concept of the super-ego - 2:21
9. Aggression - 2:31
10. Freud's first full acknowledgement of an aggressive instinct - 3:23
11. The death instinct - 3:28
12. Aggression, depression and paranoia - 2:30
13. Melancholia would today be described as a severe depressive illness - 3:00
14. What Freud suggests is illuminating - 2:38
15. Today we might describe the person prone to melancholia rather differently - 4:25
16. We commented earlier on the accuracy of Freud's description - 3:22
17. Jokes and The Psyco-Pathology of Everyday Life - 4:06
18. Freud's explanation is extremely ingenious - 4:18
19. Art and literature - 3:30
20. Since content, rather than style - 3:12
21. One cannot blame the art historians - 4:18
22. Freud's paper 'The Moses of Michelangelo' - 4:03
23. Culture and religion - 2:01
24. Totem and Taboo - 3:13

A Very Short Introduction - Freud (more info)
Composed by: Anthony Storr
Neville Jason, reader


1. The ritual totemic meal could be interpreted as a 'return of the repressed' - 2:43
2. Some of the same criticisms which have been levelled at Totem and Taboo - 2:19
3. Freud believed that religion originated in man's feelings of helplessness - 3:44
4. The impression gained from reading Freud - 4:13
5. Freud as therapist - 3:30
6. Earlier two reasons were given for requiring the patient to lie supine upon a couch - 2:46
7. A certain degree of detachment is undoubtedly required of the analyst - 3:16
8. Freud advised that most analytic patients should be seen every day - 3:36
9. Freud's own cases - 3:56
10. Any reader who studies the case of Dora without prejudice - 3:05
11. The 'Rat Man' is an entirely different porposition - 3:00
12. Freud gave his account of the 'Wolf Man' - 4:16
13. The 'Wolf Man' reveals that Freud discussed Dostoevsky with him - 3:28
14. Psychoanalysis today - 3:19
15. Earlier some aspects of the obsessional personality were outlined - 4:15
16. Freud defined the therapeutic aim of pyschoanalysis as follows - 3:28
17. Patients who seek psychoanalysis today are rather different - 4:25
18. Modern psychoanalysts have recognized the difficulty of defining - 3:55
19. The appeal of psychoanalysis - 3:32
20. Freud is often linked with Darwin and Marx - 2:50
21. Psychoanalysis has often been referred to as a religion - 4:29
22. Freudian theory made western man suspicious of conduct - 4:51

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