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This Penguin Classic is performed by Michael Pennington, one of the founders from the English Shakespeare Company, known for his stage use the RSC, and who played Carl Jung in the BBC drama, Freud. This definitive recording includes an Launch by Mark Cousins.

One of Freud’s central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed in to the unconscious, from where they continue steadily to exert a decisive impact more than our lives.

This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, aswell as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how exactly we are torn between the pleasure basic principle and the truth principle, how exactly we frequently find ways both expressing and to deny what we should most fear, and just why particular men need fetishes because of their sexual fulfillment. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are changed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.