Starting with Freud, again!

Jacobs, M (1992) Sigmund Freud. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0 8039 8465 0 (pbk), 150 pages.

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  • Grahame Hayes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1994/n19a7

Abstract

The psychological and psychoanalytic literature might appear to be saturated with introductions to Freud, and hence any new text in this area is simply going to be a wasteful repetition of its many predecessors. And while Jacobs's text covers many familiar areas of Freud's work, his approach is refreshingly contemporary, as well as invitingly written. The "re-reading" which certain of the introductory texts on Freud imply, assures a critical perspective towards psychoanalytic ideas. Psychoanalysis is not, nor should be, an orthodox theory of the unconscious: heterodoxy is axiomatic of psychoanalysis.

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2026-01-17

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Hayes, G. (2026). Starting with Freud, again! Jacobs, M (1992) Sigmund Freud. London: Sage Publications. ISBN 0 8039 8465 0 (pbk), 150 pages. PINS-Psychology in Society, (19). https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/1994/n19a7

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No. 19 (1994)

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Book Reviews

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