ON FREUD’S INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS In Lectures XIX, XX and XXI of the book Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, Freud carries out his analysis of neurosis in a scientific manner. He starts out by introducing the problem of resistance of the neurotic to psychoanalysis, and claims that these forces are the same forces of repression that cause the symptoms. Later he makes the interesting claim that the repressed are the sexual instincts and the symptoms are a way of satisfying them. I found Freud’s argument very organized and convincing; he gives an account for all phenomena and even answers to possible questions so that every argument is linked together in a logical network. Freud also tries to provide real life examples whenever he can, such as the behavior of children, sexually deviant people and even Ancient Egyptians when he explains the phenomena of finger...