Books in the Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis series

Traces the history of psychoanalytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool.

Presents an anthology of the most outstanding writings in the psychoanalytic study of masochism

Among Freud's discoveries, none has proved theoretically valid or clinically productive than his demonstration that humans regularly and inevitably repeat with analyst patterns of relationship, fantasy, and conflict experienced in their childhood. This book presents the central papers on the subject of transference from Freud's time to our own.

Classic & contemporary essays critical to understanding the foundations and development of psychoanalysis

In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. This title presents classic and contemporary papers written at the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis.

Designed for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, this volume focuses on those contributions directly relevant to the clinical situation, without neglecting fundamental descriptive and theoretical contributions.