This book focuses on how Freudian concepts have been incorporated into modern or contemporary psychoanalytic thought, introducing Freud's papers on technique and presenting his views on the place of the dream in psychoanalytic treatment.

This book aims to deconstruct the different theoretical perspectives of psychoanalysis, and reconstruct these concepts in a language that is readily understood. Wherever possible this is meant not to do away with terms that are meaningful, but to attempt to clarify terms and concepts. The book comes in three sections. The first examines Freud's