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Title page of Freuds Collected Works

Books of Influence

Gesammelte Schriften

Sigmund Freud

1924-34


Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), referred to as the 'father of psychoanalysis', reshaped theories about the workings of the human mind.

Although many of his hypotheses are widely disputed, his ideas about the unconscious, the significance of dreams and psychosexual development have had a profound influence on psychology, literature, film, feminism and popular culture.

Freud referred to the Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings), originally published in Leipzig by the publisher Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag across 12 volumes, as the 'complete edition' of his works.

The first ten volumes are organised thematically, according to a plan Freud himself devised, while the remaining two volumes are a collection of his later writings.