The Unconscious  (English, Paperback, Freud Sigmund)

Sigmund Freud's biggest achievement was his explanation of how the human mind tends to suppress many of its unwanted emotions. These thoughts and emotions are stored in the unconscious mind, and from here, they continue to have an influence on all the decisions that we make in our lives.

Summary of the Book

This book contains the key element that shows evidence of the unconscious and reveals how it works. It also contains important essays on the fundamentals of how the mind functions. He explores how humans are in a dilemma of the pleasure principle and the reality principle. We have always found ways to express and deny the things that we fear the most. He also helps us understand why some men require fetishes to attain sexual satisfaction. The book explains our basic drives and how we transform them. It also highlights the nature of sadism, masochism, exhibitionism and voyeurism.

About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud is popularly known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. He was an Austrian neurologist and qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna. He later carried out a research on cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. He was also appointed as a university lecturer in neuropathy in 1885, and later became an affiliated professor.