A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO SIGMUND FREUD'S PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HIS ENDURIN - Tecno-Libro

Abend applies his considerable psychoanalytic scholarship, as well as his long clinical experience, to making a thorough, careful, and complete presentation of Freud s essential ideas . which is something not to be taken for granted: . important elements of Freud s work are all too often misunderstood or overlooked elsewhere. . Abend never talks down to the reader. . he does not shy away from detail and complexity. . At the same time, he makes his presentation clearly and with a deceptive simplicity, so that it is always easy reading. . Abend s format is to trace the historic unfolding of Freud s thinking. . This is, again, a difficult task which is rarely accomplished with complete success, because of the many twists and turns Freud s thinking took, not to mention the incompletions and even contradictions that Freud left standing. . Abend gracefully unties the knots and connects the dots, permitting the reade