About this book
Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking essay "Some Character Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work" reveals the hidden personalities that emerge during psychological treatment—often surprising even the patients themselves. Originally published in 1916, this seminal work in psychology explores how character traits transform and intensify when patients confront their unconscious resistances in analysis.
Freud examines three distinct character types that present obstacles to therapeutic progress: those who feel entitled to exemptions from life's demands, those driven by success to self-sabotage, and those caught in cycles of self-punishment and guilt. Through clinical observation and theoretical insight, he demonstrates that our conscious self-perception often masks deeper psychological patterns shaped by unconscious conflicts and repressed desires.
This foundational text reveals how psychoanalytic technique unveils authentic personality beneath social masks, showing that resistance itself becomes the gateway to understanding human nature. Freud's penetrating analysis connects character formation to primitive instincts and developmental experiences, offering readers profound insights into the contradictions that define us.
Ideal for psychology students, therapists, psychoanalysts, and anyone fascinated by the hidden depths of human personality, this audiobook presents essential concepts that continue to influence modern psychology, psychiatry, and our understanding of why we behave the way we do.
