I want to have a little fun with this post . . . .
It's the 160th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's birth. That's right, it's Freud's (not to be confused with a MobileReader with the username of "Froide") birthday. You did know that it's Siggy's birthday--didn't you?
I'm posting this book to mark this momentous occasion. GtrsRGr8 happens to love birthdays (except when I'm having
another one. Ack!!!) and believes in celebrating them. It's sure better than commemorating the
death of people and the
start of wars as seems to be the trend lately. Ack!!!
Sure, this book is in the public domain and you can get a copy "anywhere" for free. Amazon has a free Kindle mobi, for example. But, it . . . well . . . leaves a lot to be desired, IMHO (the preview that you see is not of the ebook that you would get, it's of a nice paperback edition).
I ferreted out this edition, published by the University of Adelaide, of
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud. I'm posting it because of it being a pleasure to read because it is
very clean, it has a clickable TOC, you can cut-and-paste the text (should you want to write a research paper about Sigmund Freud or this book or something), and, like the others, it's
free.
I don't know how good the translation is, but I do know that the translator, G. Stanley Hall, has translated a
lot of stuff, including the free Kindle mobi edition at Amazon.
A word about the formats: ostensibly, you can get ePub, mobi, and html. However, I got no download and got an error message, instead, when I tried to download the mobi. YMMV. The html comes in a zip file; if you are sure, really
sure, that you want to read the html (Ack!!), you can get it by clicking on the "download" link at the bottom of the first page. The links for the ePub and Kindle mobi are there also.
And a word of advice . . . . party responsibly. Keep the noise and music down (because of the neighbors), don't eat too much birthday cake, and make sure that you have a designated driver or get a taxi so that you can be around next year for Siggy's
161st birthday. I can't wait!
Title: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
Format(s): EPub; mobi; html.
Author(s): Sigmund Freud; G. Stanley Hall.
Publisher: University of Adelaide.
Pages: Approximately 385.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.1 (55).
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $0.00.
Book Description (GoodReads):
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical method of psychoanalysis for investigating the mind and treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient (or "analysand") and a psychoanalyst.
Freud postulated that sexual drives were the primary motivational forces of human life, developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association, discovered the phenomenon of transference in the therapeutic relationship and established its central role in the analytic process; he interpreted dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy, and a prolific essayist, drawing on psychoanalysis to contribute to the history, interpretation and critique of culture.
Comments: I believe that this is a legal
free download in the U.S. because 1) the text is in the public domain, being first published prior to 1923, and 2) it is in the collection of free ebooks at the University of Adelaide, "Ebooks @ Adelaide" ("Free books, online")(
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/). For Aussies, the ebook states, "To the best of our knowledge, the text of this work is in the “Public Domain” in Australia."
URL: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fre...sychoanalysis/.