The Unconscious
Penguin Classics
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Michael Pennington
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Michael Pennington, one of the founders of the English Shakespeare Company, known for his stage work with the RSC, and who played Carl Jung in the BBC drama, Freud. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Mark Cousins.
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
This volume contains a key statement about evidence for the unconscious, and how it works, as well as major essays on all the fundamentals of mental functioning. Freud explores how we are torn between the pleasure principle and the reality principle, how we often find ways both to express and to deny what we most fear, and why certain men need fetishes for their sexual satisfaction. His study of our most basic drives, and how they are transformed, brilliantly illuminates the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.
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- Lauren N. Davies
- 03-11-21
Worth reading but...
The Unconscious is Interspersed with rich, interesting ideas, with possibly genius flashes of insight, but it is very difficult to follow. My ability to understand was hindered by the language used and, perhaps moreso, by the detailed sexual inferences and conclusions Freud so often leaps to which seemed to bare little or no resemblance to the idea he had just introduced. I very often had no idea what Freud was talking about. It may have been easier to digest if reading in text form and being able to re-read several times to process. I'm not informed enough around this subject to work out whether this is just my ignorance and lack of intelligence or whether a lot of what was written is nonsense. Having said this, there were definitely a lot of ideas in there of value, in particular the unconscious, precocious and conscious mind and how these may interact, as well as ideas surrounding responses to threat and unsatisfied needs.
Worth reading, if nothing else to gain insight into the mind of Freud.
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- D. A. Mclauchlan
- 03-03-22
Well-read with a great introduction
I had to go to some lengths to find out who had written the excellent introduction to this book, and don’t know why it’s not mentioned. It’s by Mark Cousins, the architectural theorist.
It’s interesting to have this translation as well as Strachey’s, and great to have an audiobook of it at all. Very impressed.
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- michael
- 22-08-21
Too high brow
Not, what I was looking for. The book is at too high a level for me.😫
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