Freud's Models of the Mind: An Introduction

by Christopher Dare, Anna Ursula Dreher, Alex Holder, Joseph Sandler

Overview

The authors succeed in putting Freud's models of the mind into a historical and developmental framework and show the complexity of his thinking on the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855751675
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	The Psychoanalytic Monograph Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Foundations , The development of Freud’s theory , Basic assumptions , First phase: the affect—trauma frame of reference , The affect-trauma model , Second phase: the topographical frame of reference , The organization of the mental apparatus , The system Unconscious , The system Preconscious , The system Conscious , Transference , Dream processes , Further aspects , Narcissism and object-love , Limitations and transition to the structural model , Third phase: the structural frame of reference , Characteristics , The three agencies , A final word