title: The Freud reader
author:  Sigmund Freud 
description: Author of numerous books on Freud, including a highly regarded biography ( Freud, LJ 7/88), Gay offers the general reader a comprehensive survey of Freud's psychoanalytical, political, and philosophical writings. Preceded by a meaty introduction that emphasizes Freud's commitment to science and reason, this single-volume work includes some 50 of Freud's texts, organized chronologically with headnotes. The selections range from case studies and theoretical discussions about dreams, anxiety, and anal eroticism to essays on lay analysis and religion as humankind's obsessional neurosis. Read sequentially, they allow readers to trace Freud's conceptual shift from a topographic theory of the mind to his structural theory of drives. A scholarly work for students and those wanting more than a cursory look.<BR><I>- Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix</I><BR>Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: SIGMUND FREUD
  Revised Edition
  To those who see Freud solely as a psychologist and a psychotherapist it may
  be surprising to find him discussed as a major contributor to sociology. In this
  book, Robert Bocock argues that Freud’s work, far from being exclusively
  concerned with individual personality seen in abstraction from the social and
  cultural environment, does have important implications for social theory and is
  not always given the serious sociological study it deserves. Bocock demonstrates
  Freud’s central relevance to sociological discussions about gender, sexuality, the
  family, religion, ideology and symbolism, political authority, and language, and
  examines the considerable influence that Freud’s theories have had upon
  sociological schools.
  Robert Bocock was formerly Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open
  University. He now does consultancy work. 
  
  KEY SOCIOLOGISTS
  Edited by PETER HAMILTON
  Now reissued, this classic series provides students with concise and readable
  introducti