The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freud

A wide-ranging collection of work by international authorities on Freud's early writings. This book offers the opportunity to gain an insight into Freud's polymathic early researches - areas as diverse as neurology, physiology, philosophy and hypnosis.

Barford, Duncan

A Note on Texts -- Introduction -- An Introduction to the Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud -- Freud's Theory of Aphasia Revisited: Epistemological and Clinical Implications -- Freud's Merit as a Psychiatrist -- The Place of Cocaine in the Work of Freud -- Freud's Studies on Cocaine -- In the Beginning of Psychoanalysis There Was Euphoria -- Franz Brentano, Freud's Philosophical Mentor -- On Freud's Encounter with Brentano -- John Stuart Mill Translated by Sigmund Freud -- Freud, Hysteria, and Psychiatry as the Impossible Profession -- Psychic Determination in Neurosis: On the Role of Constitution in Early Freudian Theory -- 'My Bad Diagnostic Error': Re-Visiting the Case of Emmy Von N. (Fanny Moser) -- Freud's Neural Unconscious -- The Topology of 'A Project for a Scientific Psychology' -- The Symptom as Metaphor: Freud's 'Project' -- A Reading of an Ethics of Psychoanalysis from Freud's Formulation of Das Ding in the 'Project for a Scientific Psychology' -- On the Origins of Psychic Structure: A Case-Study Revisited on the Basis of Freud's 'Project' -- Freud's Pre-Analytical Writings and His Scientific Revolution -- The Origin of the Subject from the Perspective of Freud's Scientific Materialism -- Suggestions from the Unconscious: Freud, Hypnosis, and the Mind-Body Problem -- From the Associationist Unconscious to the Unconscious Structured like a Language