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  • Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    The Standard Edition, Paperback, 1965

    Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.
  • Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    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

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    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...
  • The Ego and the Id

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    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

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

    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.
  • Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

    Peter Gay

    E Book, 2013

    A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles.
  • Modernism: The Lure of Heresy

    Peter Gay

    E Book, 2013

    “Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
  • Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

    Peter Gay

    E Book, 2013

    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.
  • Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

    Peter Gay

    E Book, 2013

    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine
  • Freud: A Life for Our Time

    Peter Gay

    E Book, 2012

    A national bestseller