![]() ''Interpretation of Dreams.'' But that edition, dating from 1938, uses translations superseded by the 24-volume Standard Edition that is Gay`s text. ![]() ''Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious,'' but not ''Moses and Monotheism''-are still available in the old Modern Library Giant, ''The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud,'' edited by A. THE FREUD READER edited b y PETER GAY w W NORTON & COMPANY New York London Copyright 1989 by W. ![]() Most of the striking omissions-''The Psychopathology of Everyday Life,'' Gay is certainly correct: Freud is part of our everyday vocabulary: the. But here entire, or nearly, are Freud`s 40-page ''Autobiographical Study'' and such crucial work as ''Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality,'' the Leonardo essay, ''Totem and Taboo,'' ''Beyond the Pleasure Principle,'' ''The Future of an Illusion,'' ''The Ego and the Id'' and ''Civilization and Its Discontents''. Peter Gay, Introduction in The Freud Reader, (New York: Norton, 1989) pg. I wish Gay had augmented Draft K, describing the neuroses of defense, with some of Draft H, on paranoia, in which Freud gets down to cases, where he is always at his best. The magical ''Interpretation of Dreams'' is briefly excerpted and supplemented by a condensation of the book Freud wrote immediately after the longer version. ![]() ![]() As to comprehensiveness, Gay touches all the bases of Freud`s incredibly prolific career in these 56 pieces, which are preceded by brief notes and bolstered by a long introductory essay and an extensive chronology of Freud`s life. ![]()
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