Introduction i do not know how familiar some of you may be either from your reading or from hearsay with psychoanalysis but in keeping with the title of these lectures a general introduction to psychoanalysis i am obliged to proceed as though you knew nothing about this subject and stood in need of preliminary instruction. An accessible introduction to psychoanalysis and to the workings of freuds thought throughout these lectures especially in the early lectures freud gives expression to his lifelong desire for psychoanalysis to be an objective science but his understanding of the work of analysis and its relation with the unconscious continually expel it from being either objective or properly scientific analysis is a thoroughly subjective experience or event in the first lecture freud speaks of how . Sigmund freud 1920 a general introduction to psychoanalysis anxiety is the mark which shows that the suppressed wish showed itself stronger than the censorship wish fulfillment. A general introduction to psychoanalysis by freud sigmund 1856 1939 publication date 1920 topics psychoanalysis psychoanalysis dreams symbolism publisher new york horace liveright collection medicalheritagelibrary francisacountwaylibrary americana digitizing sponsor open knowledge commons and harvard medical school contributor francis a countway library of medicine language english