Instinct and the Unconscious (Annotated)

Instinct and the Unconscious is W. H. R. Rivers's ambitious attempt to ground the psycho-neuroses in biology rather than in purely speculative psychology. Written in a lucid, argumentative style, the book examines instinct, repression, dream, conflict, and wartime trauma, proposing that the unconscious preserves older modes of response inhibited by later mental organization. Situated between Darwi...