Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Before you lie down on the couch… 1
1 You and Freud 5
How much insight do you have? 6
Is psychoanalysis for you? 11
2 Your Freudian personality 17
Who's in control of your id? 18
How strong is your ego? 23
Do you have a guilty conscience? 28
3 The Freudian child 33
Do you have an oral personality? 34
Do you have an anal personality? 39
How phallic-minded are you? 44
How conformist are you? 49
How emotionally mature are you? 53
4 Freudian family life 59
Do you have an Oedipus complex? 60
Do you have an Electra complex? 66
5 Birth, life, and death 73
How narcissistic are you? 74
How much are you influenced by the past? 78
Do you have a death wish? 83
6 Dreams, slips, and jokes 89
Are your dreams trying to tell you something? 90
How accident-prone are you? 95
Do you have a Freudian sense of humor? 100
7 Freudian defense mechanisms that deny reality 105
How repressed are you? 106
Are you honest with yourself? 111
How grown-up are you? 115
How well adjusted to society are you? 119
8 Freudian defense mechanisms that distort reality 125
Are you an extremist? 126
How good are you at making excuses? 131
Are you in touch with your feelings? 135
9 Freudian defense mechanisms that falsify reality 139
Is it ever your fault? 140
Are you a clone? 144
How superstitious are you? 148
Before you get off the couch… 153
Bibliography and further reading 158
