"All books by Peter Gay"
The Freud Reader
Paperback, 1995
The first single-volume work to capture Freud's ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher.
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1971
Along with the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, this book remains one of Freud's most widely read.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Paperback, 2010
Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1978
Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund...
The Ego and the Id
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1962
In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
Totem and Taboo
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1962
Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.
On Dreams
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 2002
Aware that his Interpretation of Dreams was a long and difficult book, Freud decided that he must offer a version that would be briefer and easier to follow.
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1963
Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the...
An Autobiographical Study
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1963
Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund...
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1965
Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.