The Collected Works of Sigmund Freud

This carefully edited collection of Sigmund Freud's path breaking works has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.

Introduction to Psychoanalysis

The Interpretation of Dreams

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses

Leonardo da Vinci

A Young Girl's Diary

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Totem and Taboo

Reflections on War and Death

The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis

The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement

Freud's Theories of the Unconscious by H. W. Chase

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious. Freud postulated the existence of libido, an energy with which mental processes and structures are invested and which generates erotic attachments, and a death drive, the source of compulsive repetition, hate, aggression and neurotic guilt.