Here is a list of the best Freud books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (2016)
- The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text (2010)
- The Freud Reader (1995)
- The Ego and the Id (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) (1990)
- Civilization and Its Discontents (2010)
- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (2019)
- Freud: A Life for Our Time (2006)
- Freud: A Very Short Introduction (2001)
- Freud and Man’s Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory (1983)
- The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (2003)
- The Uncanny (Penguin Classics) (2003)
- Freud: The Making of an Illusion (2018)
- Freud (The Routledge Philosophers) (2015)
- Totem and Taboo (Dover Thrift Editions) (2018)
- Psychopathology Of Everyday Life (2017)
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (2016)
Sigmund Freud’s concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation since Freud’s death in 1939. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J.
The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text (2010)
What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize? First published in 1899, Sigmund Freud’s groundbreaking book, The Interpretation of Dreams, explores why we dream and why dreams matter in our psychological lives.
The Freud Reader (1995)
The first single-volume work to capture Freud’s ideas as scientist, humanist, physician, and philosopher. What to read from the vast output of Sigmund Freud has long been a puzzle.
The Ego and the Id (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) (1990)
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.The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud’s later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.
Civilization and Its Discontents (2010)
Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (2019)
Though it has now fallen out of favor among many practitioners and scholars, Freud’s concept of psychoanalysis—an approach that focuses primarily on adverse events in early childhood and irrational drives that are overcome via extended talk therapy—was and continues to be enormously influential, not only in the realm of psychology, but also in the larger culture. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of psychoanalysis from the point of view of the field’s creator.
Freud: A Life for Our Time (2006)
A national bestseller”A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time.” ―J. Anthony Lukas “[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud’s life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively.” ―Chicago Tribune
Freud: A Very Short Introduction (2001)
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-century since his death, can we assess his true legacy to current thought. As an experienced psychiatrist himself, Anthony Storr offers a lucid and objective look at Freud’s major theories, evaluating whether they have stood the test of time, and in the process examines Freud himself in light of his own ideas.
Freud and Man’s Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory (1983)
Has Sigmund Freud been seriously misunderstood? The author of The Uses of Enchantment argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud’s work in English and led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual needs as a set of rigid rules to be applied by external authority.
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (2003)
Throughout the ages, many of the world’s greatest thinkers have wrestled with the concept of — and belief in — God. It may seem unlikely that any new arguments or insights could be raised, but the twentieth century managed to produce two brilliant men with two diametrically opposed views about the question of God: Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. They never had an actual meeting, but in The Question of God, their arguments are placed side by side for the very first time.
The Uncanny (Penguin Classics) (2003)
Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind.
Freud: The Making of an Illusion (2018)
Since the 1970s, Sigmund Freud’s scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin―but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value.
Freud (The Routledge Philosophers) (2015)
In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud’s thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nature of the self and subjectivity, and ethics and religion.
Totem and Taboo (Dover Thrift Editions) (2018)
Originally published in 1918, this landmark collection of essays by the father of psychoanalysis represents one of Freud's most penetrating attempts to decipher the mysteries of human behavior. Its focus is the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization, i.e., the struggle to reconcile unconscious desires with socially acceptable behavior.
Psychopathology Of Everyday Life (2017)
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient’s life he discovered that the hitherto puzzling symptoms had a definite meaning, and that there was nothing arbitrary in any morbid manifestation.
Best Freud Books: The Ultimate List
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A Moment of Transition. Two Neuroscientific Articles by Sigmund Freud
Author(s): Mark Solms; Michael Saling
ID: 2289317, Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: London, Size: 13 Mb, Format: pdf
Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud
Author(s): Vivian Heller
ID: 3202573, Publisher: Confer Books, Year: 2022, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
Author(s): Dany Nobus
ID: 3214233, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly chart-busters according to USA Today, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.