Tony Thwaites

Reading Freud (eBook, PDF)

Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time:

• an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to see quickly where, and in which texts, Freud develops his main ideas
• a guide to reading Freud, and to what can be done with the complexities of his texts
• an examination of what recent cultural theory draws from Freud, and of why psychoanalysis is of interest for it
• a discussion about the Freud revealed by recent cultural theory
• an extensive selection of extracts from Freud's texts, with commentary.

This book is the definitive guide to the content of Freud's texts: what's there and where to find it. It will have wide appeal to students new to Freud in cultural studies, literary theory, philosophy and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848607651
• Artikelnr.: 38430853

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Borders
PART ONE: UNCONSCIOUS
The slip
Early writings
I: Unconscious and conscious
II: Ego, id and superego
III: The inhuman
PART TWO: SEXUALITY
Forgetting
I: Drive
II: Development
Sexual difference
PART THREE: SOCIAL
Siren
Foreign territory
I: Fantasies of the social
II: The social super-ego
III: The opening of history