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An annual task for the University teacher of psychoanalysis, and those who teach on such a course as Third Year Analytical Course of the Scottish Institute of Human Relations, is to review cheaply-bound and widely available editions of Freud's writings. The publication of the Pelican Freud Library greatly assisted the recommendation of available texts. The scheme followed in the present volume was first drawn up by Miss Freud in 1977 as a Study Guide to Freud's writings. In her preface she outlines the difficulties of introducing lay persons to the world of psychoanalytic thought. “If the instructor wants to spare his students surprises and difficulties, he cannot help but falsify his material. If he wants to do justice to the facts, he runs the risk of demanding too much from his students and losing their interest and continuing attention”. Using the topics covered in Freud's essay ‘The Question of Lay Analysis’, the present volume is laid out with the following chapter headings, each with an introduction by Miss Freud and containing the Standard Edition translation without the Strachey prefaces but with his footnotes:-
Chapter 1 ‘The Question of Lay Analysis’, ( with its postcripts of ); Chapter 2 ‘The Meaning of Dreams’; Chapter 3 ‘The Concept of the Unconscious’ (A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis) , ‘The Unconscious’ , ‘Some Elementary lessons in Psycho-Analysis’ ; Chapter 4 ‘The Instinctual Drives’ (Instincts and their Vicissitudes) , ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’ ; Chapter 5 ‘Human Sexuality’ (Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality) , ‘The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex’ , ‘Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes’ , ‘Femininity’ ; Chapter 6 ‘Structure of the Psychic Personality (The Ego and the Id) , ‘The dissection of the Psychical Personality’ (New Introductory Lectures) ; Chapter 7 ‘The Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle’ (Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning) ; Chapter 8 ‘The