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.
Commentary -- Preface -- The Early Years -- Freud's Early Ideas -- Transference as a Central Concept -- The Evolution of the Concept of Transference -- The Transference Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Dream Interpretation -- The Exceptional Position of the Dream in Freudian Thought -- Freud's Dream Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Clinical Practice -- Freud's Practical Suggestions -- Freud's Recommendations Papers -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Freud's Final Views -- Freud on Analyzability, Termination, and Recovery of Pathogenic Memories -- Freud's Termination and Construction Papers -- Contemporary Views of Termination -- Contemporary Views of Reconstruction -- Integrating Freud's Legacy with Contemporary Views and Experience -- Freud's Actual Conduct of Treatment -- The Widening Scope of Psychoanalysis -- Freud's Positions -- Credits
