1. Freud and his scientific Project -- 2. Beginnings of psychoanalysis -- 3. Interpretation of dreams -- 4. Psychic apparatus and topographic theory -- 5. The theory of instincts -- 6. Development and object relations -- 7. Narcissism and the dual instinct theory -- 8. Nature and origins of anxiety -- 9. Structural theory and ego psychology -- 10. On going developments -- 11. Classical psychoanalytic treatment