Why read The Collected Works of Sigmund Freud?

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, edited by Mark Solms,
There is an unconscious element of the mind
Before Freud, the idea of an unconscious mind was an oxymoron. Mental and conscious used to mean the same thing, so the idea that there are mental forces you can be unaware of was totally new.
Freud’s own model of consciousness – the id, ego and superego, which represent different parts of our minds, including animal drives as well as our personalities and moral compasses – hasn’t been proven by scientists.
But numerous scientific studies have…

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