In Basik Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that even in the age of psychopharmaceutical and cognitive therapy, Freud's major insights into the unconscious remain unsurprassed tools for understanding our behaviors, motivations, and emotions. Kahn presents key ideas such as the Oedipus complex, the repetition compulsion, guilt, anxiety, and defense mechanisms, along with recent research that has supported or expanded Freud's findings.
