Freud on the psychology of ordinary mental life
By: Susan Sugarman
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781442204034
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-112) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the inquiry; title: The pleasure principle; title: Meaning and determinism and the search for anomalies; title: Conscious and unconscious, repression, and development; title: Developmental analysis as investigatory tool studies; title: Getting lost in someone else's story : "Creative writers and daydreaming" (1908); title: Why we laugh at something funny : Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905); title: The experience of the "uncanny" : "The 'Uncanny'" (1908); title: The paradox of surprise in the face of certainty : "A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis" (1936); title: What makes choice difficult when it is : a Freud-inspired excursion; title: Mourning and mental health; title: "On transience" (1916), "Mourning and melancholia" (1917).