Robert A. Paul

Our Two-Track Minds (eBook, ePUB)

Rehabilitating Freud on Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies.

Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501370045
• Artikelnr.: 60511206

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Paul is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, USA, and an Adjunct Professor in the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is one of a very few people trained both in anthropology and in clinical psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Stream and the Road Part I. DROSS INTO GOLD: Recuperating
Freud's Social Theory 1. Freud's Theory of Society 2. Biology and Culture
in Civilization and Its Discontents 3. Yes, the Primal Crime Did Take Place
PART II. LIKE RABBITS OR LIKE ROBOTS? Sexual versus Non-Sexual Reproduction
in the Western Tradition 4. The Genealogy of Civilization 5. Sons or
Sonnets? 6. The Pygmalion Complex PART III. OUR TWO TRACK-MINDS: A Dual
Inheritance Perspective on Some Classic Psychoanalytic Issues 7. Incest
Avoidance: Oedipal and Preoedipal, Natural and Cultural 8. Sexuality:
Biological Fact or Cultural Construction? 9. Consciousness, Language, and
Dual Inheritance References Index