Freud's theory and its use in literary and cultural studies : an introduction / Henk de Berg.

1. The birth of psychoanalysis ; Hysteria ; Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious ; Sexuality ; From polymorphous perversity to adult sexuality ; The normality of perversion
2. How to gain access to the unconscious ; The interpretation of dreams I ; The interpretation of dreams II: some problems ; The interpretation of Freudian slips I ; The interpretation of Freudian slips II: applications ; The interpretation of free associations ; The interpretation of resistance and transference
3. The unconscious and society ; Id, ego, and superego I ; Id, ego, and superego II: three examples ; The id and society ; The revolutionary nature of psychoanalysis
4. The psychoanalysis of literature ; The mystery of Hamlet ; Hamlet and Oedipus ; Hamlet's inner conflict ; The play, the author, the readers ; Psychoanalysis and literary criticism ; Unconscious communication: Heine's "Lore-Ley" ; Snow White, or the meaning and importance of fairy tales
5. The psychoanalysis of culture ; Totem and taboo I ; Totem and taboo II: its problems and its influence on literature ; Totem and taboo III: its application to the study of culture ; Man's cultural self-deception ; Two types of psychoanalysis.