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Preface One THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT The Einstein of the mind Mental topography Psychological dynamics Resistance and repression Two THE FIRST PSYCHOANALYTIC REVOLUTION Hypnosis and hysteria Trauma and the pressure method The emergence of the dynamic view Free association and the fall of the seduction theory Three DREAMS Dream-interpretation and self-analysis A specimen dream The dreamwork A corroborating dream Four THE LIBIDO THEORY Listening to the libido Auto-eroticism and the oral stage Anal and sadistic The psychotic singularity Five THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX Parent-offspring conflict Parental investment and Oedipal behaviour Resolution and identification The castration complex Six THE SECOND PSYCHOANALYTIC REVOLUTION The Gross method of psychoanalysis The transference neurosis The ego and the id Ego-analysis and child-therapy Seven MASS PSYCHOLOGY The ambivalence of thoughts The Le Bon-Freud theory An illusion and its past Reaction, revolution and reality Eight PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE AGE OF THE CROWD Einstein/Freud ambivalence The credulity of the crowd In the footsteps of Freud Eclipse of the steady-state social theory Nine FINAL APPLICATIONS The Jewish question The unified theory Freudian evolution Beyond `Beyond the Pleasure Principle' Glossary of Technical Terms Suggestions for Further Reading References Index.