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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Private works: 46
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Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
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Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud

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Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Faced with painful repetitions that pleasure-seeking does not explain, Freud advances new hypotheses about repetition compulsion and drives. The text shows a theory risking a step beyond its evidence.

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Composition: 1920
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 60 passages · 18,851 words

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Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud

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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

Freud analyzes how condensation, double meaning, displacement, and savings in inhibition give a joke its form and pleasure. Verbal technique and the joke’s social tendency must be examined together.

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Composition: 1905
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 224 passages · 81,188 words

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The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud

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The Interpretation of Dreams

Freud treats the dream as a constructed psychical formation, not a message decoded through fixed symbols. He follows condensation, displacement, censorship, and wish-fulfilment from the manifest account toward hypothetical latent thoughts.

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Composition: principal composition, 1898-1899; publication dated 1900
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 630 passages · 225,891 words

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The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Forgotten names, slips, misreadings, and bungled actions become motivated psychical events for Freud. Inquiry concerns their conditions and compromises without assuming that one explanation fits every error.

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Composition: articles from 1901; first book edition, 1904
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 84 passages · 35,729 words

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Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud

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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Freud reconstructs sexual development as a history of partial drives, changing objects, and successive organizations. The text belongs to a dated clinical theory whose terminology and generalizations require critical context.

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Composition: 1905
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 109 passages · 35,693 words

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Totem and TabooSigmund Freud

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Totem and Taboo

Freud brings psychoanalysis, the anthropology of his period, and stories of social origins together to consider prohibition, ambivalence, and guilt. His generalizations about peoples and prehistory are speculative and historically dated.

What you will learn

Composition: articles, 1912-1913; book edition, 1913
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 180 passages · 61,033 words