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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3OCTAVIO. textit{(Hastily.) To textit{her herself Q- To Octavio. textit{(Interrupting him and correcting himself.) To the duke. Come, let us go. Octavio meant to say, To him, to the lord, but his tongue Blips and through his words textit{to her he betrays to us, at least, the fact that he had quite clearly recognized the influence which makes the young war hero dream of peace. A still more impressive example was found by 0. Rank in Shakespeare. It occurs in the textit{Merchant of Venice, in the famous scene in which the fortunate suitor makes his choice among the three caskets; and perhaps I can do no better than to read to you here Rank's short account of the incident: A slip of the tongue which occurs in Shakespeare's textit{Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene II, is exceedingly delicate in its poetic motivation and technically brilliant in its handling. Like the slip in textit{Wallenstein quoted by Freud textit{(Psychopathology of Everyday Life, 2d ed., p. 48), it shows that the poets well know the meaning of these errors and assume their compre- hensibility to the audience. Portia, who by her father's wish has been bound to the choice of a husband by lot, has so far escaped all her unfavored suitors through the fortunes of chance. Since she has finally found in Bassanio the suitor to whom she is attached, she fears that he, too, will choose the wrong casket. She would like to tell him that even in that event he may rest assured of her love, but is prevented from so doing by her oath. In this inner conflict the poet makes her say to the welcome suitor: Portia: I pray you tarry; pause a day or two, Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong I lose your company; therefore, forbear a while: There's something tells me, (but it is not love) I would not lose you: ...
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2009 reprint of 1920 edition. In this book Freud presented his theory of psychoanalysis in the form of twenty-eight lectures to laymen. He sets forth the basic premises, difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and describes its main methods and results. It is a basic and early statement of what Freud understood to be his major contribution to science.
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Translation of Vorlesungen zur einf'uhrung in die psychoanalyse.