Howard L Kaye

Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist

On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new reading of Freud as the social theorist he aspired to be, rather than as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be. The author demonstrates that Freud's social, moral, and political thought is not to be found solely in his overtly 'cultural' texts, but rather is the thread that binds all of his work together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138363151
• ISBN-10: 1138363154
• Artikelnr.: 54710419

Autorenporträt

Howard L. Kaye is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College, USA, and the author of The Social Meaning of Modern Biology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Was Freud a Medical Scientist or a Social Theorist?
2. In Search of the "Royal Road"
3. The "Compelling Call" of Psychology and the Foundational Texts of
1899-1905
4. Psychoanalysis as Cultural Critique: From Frustrated Sexuality to the
Problem of Authority
5. Totem and Taboo: The Emergence of Freud as a Social Theorist
6. From Metapsychology to Social Psychology
7. Death, the Uncanny, and the Post-war Crisis of Authority
8. The Psychology of the Ego and the Riddles of Mind and Culture
9. The Work of Culture
10. Freud's Testament
Conclusion: The Freud Who Endures
Index