/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14519354]

want to get into things like human psychology and behaviour, any suggestion on what books should I read?

[Anonymous No.14519366]

>>14519354
The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom is a good introduction to evolutionary psychology, and its very accessible. If you want depth psychology then start with Freud's five lectures.

[Anonymous No.14519381]

>>14519366
has anyone attempted to ground Freud's psychoanalysis in evolutionary psychology

[Anonymous No.14520920]

>The most important technical works:
Consider these if you really want to understand Freud and are willing to put in the effort.
- The Neuro-Psychoses of Defense (SE III)
- The Interpretation of Dreams, II-III and VI-VII (SE IV-V)
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (SE VII)
- Papers on Metapsychology (SE XIV)
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (SE XVIII)
- The Ego and the Id (SE XIX)
- Symptoms, Inhibitions, and Anxiety (SE XX)

>The popular works:
Consider these if you're interested in more literary work which you're more likely to encounter referenced in your general reading.
- Totem and Taboo (SE XIII)
- The Future of an Illusion (SE XXI)
- Civilization and Its Discontents (SE XXI)
- Moses and Monotheism (SE XXIII)

>The major case studies:
- Studies on Hysteria [incl. "Anna O"] (SE II, with Breuer)
- Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ["Dora"] (SE VII)
- Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy ["Little Hans"] (SE X)
- Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis ["Rat Man"] (SE X)
- Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia ["Schreber"] (SE XII)
- From the History of an Infantile Neurosis ["Wolf Man"] (SE XVII)

>The lectures and outlines:
Consider these if you're looking for a quick survey or introduction.
- Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (SE XI)
- Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (SE XV-XVI)
- New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (SE XXII)
- An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (XXIII)

[Anonymous No.14521047]

>>14519354
unironically just start with reading the wikipedia articles about it and then go to main sources when you have an overall understanding of the topic at hand.

[Anonymous No.14521874]

>>14519381
...Freud has.

[Anonymous No.14521882]

>>14520920
fantastic. thank you!

[Anonymous No.14521891]

Read about the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.

"Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to
expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly
to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of
hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their
stead will appear the uniform expression of the one
unstilled urge." Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was
spared knowing the concentration camps from the
inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the
plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of
Auschwitz. There, the "individual differences" did not
"blur" but, on the contrary, people became more
different; people unmasked themselves, both the
swine and the saints. And today you need no longer
hesitate to use the word "saints": think of Father
Maximilian Kolbe who was starved and finally mur-
dered by an injection of carbolic acid at Auschwitz and
who in 1983 was canonized."

[Anonymous No.14521954]

>>14519381
Yeah, Freud.