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1. 1. The Psychology Of Love

   

   Freud analyzes love as a complex interplay of unconscious drives in which erotic libido is displaced onto external objects and shaped by early caregiver relations; he distinguishes object-love from narcissistic self-love, traces how infantile experiences (including Oedipal dynamics) determine adult object-choice and sexual aims, and explains how mechanisms such as repression, sublimation, and transference transform and complicate erotic impulses—so that love becomes both a source of gratification and of conflict, repetition, and suffering within individual and cultural life.

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2. 2. Totem Y Tabu / Totem And Taboo

   Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics

   

   A psychoanalytic investigation of primitive myth, ritual and social rules that argues many cultural institutions—totems, taboos (especially the incest taboo), and religious rites—arose from unconscious memories of a primal patricidal event: the sons’ murder of a dominant father and the guilt that followed. These collective emotions were transformed into totemic reverence and prohibitions that shaped morality and law, and the same dynamics persist in individual neuroses and the formation of conscience. The work links ethnographic evidence with psychoanalytic theory to suggest that the roots of religion and social order are psychological as well as historical.

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3. 3. O Infamiliar [Das Unheimliche] – Edição Comemorativa Bilíngue

   Edição Comemorativa Bilíngue

   

   Ensaio psicanalítico que investiga o sentimento do inquietante como um retorno do reprimido: traça a etimologia e a ambivalência entre o familiar e o estranho, analisa motivos recorrentes (duplos, autômatos, bonecos, repetição, morte) e discute como crenças infantis e vestígios primitivos da mente tornam o já conhecido surpreendentemente estranho, ilustrando como processos inconscientes e impulsos recalcados transformam o vivido em fonte de angústia estética.

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4. 4. The Basic Writings Of Sigmund Freud

   

   A foundational collection of essays and case studies that lays out the core ideas of psychoanalytic theory and clinical method, arguing that much of mental life is unconscious and is revealed through dreams, slips, symptoms and free association; it develops concepts such as libido, repression, the Oedipus complex and stages of psychosexual development, explains neuroses as the product of unresolved childhood conflicts and defensive processes, and discusses transference and therapeutic interpretation, while also addressing the broader cultural tension between instinctual drives and social constraints.

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5. 5. Dream Psychology

   

   The work presents a theory that dreams are meaningful products of the unconscious, often serving as disguised fulfillments of wishes, and describes how the “dream‑work” (condensation, displacement, symbolization, and secondary revision) transforms latent thoughts into the manifest content recalled on waking. It outlines methods for interpreting dreams—especially free association to uncover latent content—highlights the roles of day residues, childhood experience, and repressed impulses, and uses many dream examples to show how dream analysis can reveal hidden conflicts and contribute to understanding neuroses and the structure of the psyche.

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6. 6. The Origins Of Religion

   

   It argues that religion arises from unconscious wish-fulfillment rooted in infancy and the human need for a protective father figure, projected outward as gods; mythic accounts of a primal patricide and the resulting guilt, preserved in totemic systems, generate rites, taboos and an internalized moral authority (the superego). Religion thus consolingly tames fear, helplessness and death and strengthens social cohesion, but it is ultimately an illusion born of psychological conflict that obstructs full, rational maturity and the honest confrontation of human drives and reality.