Tales from the Freudian Crypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales from the Freudian Crypt write by Todd Dufresne. This book was released on 2000. Tales from the Freudian Crypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.
Against Freud
Against Freud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Freud write by Todd Dufresne. This book was released on 2007. Against Freud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis.
Killing Freud
Killing Freud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Killing Freud write by Todd Dufresne. This book was released on 2006-09-19. Killing Freud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of Freud.
The Legend of Freud
The Legend of Freud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Legend of Freud write by Samuel Weber. This book was released on 2000. The Legend of Freud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Psychoanalysis is dead!" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. The Legend of Freud shows why psychoanalysis has remained uncanny, not just for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners as well—and why it continues to fascinate us. For psychoanalysis is not just a theory of psychic conflict: it is a thought in conflict with itself. Often violent, the conflicts of psychoanalysis are most productive where they remain unresolved, thus producing a text that must be read: deciphered, interpreted, rewritten. Psychoanalysis: legenda est. Review "The Legend of Freud is a fine example of what can be done with Freud's texts when philosophical and literary approaches converge, and you leave the couch in the other room. . . . Like Lacan and Derrida, Weber doesn't so much explain or interpret Freud as engage him, performing what Freud would have called an Auseinandersetzung, a discussion or argument that's also a taking apart, a deconstruction. . . . Deconstruction has picked up a bad name, especially in the minds of those who don't understand it; but this wouldn't be the case if there were more books like Weber's. The Legend of Freud is the best deconstructive work I've seen lately, and the best response to Freud; it merits close attention from anyone who wants a challenge, not merely a guide to what's right and wrong. . . . Weber is brilliantly imaginative, respectful of his subject and his readers, and productive of new ideas." —Village Voice Literary Supplement
The Late Sigmund Freud
The Late Sigmund Freud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Late Sigmund Freud write by Todd Dufresne. This book was released on 2017-03-24. The Late Sigmund Freud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental 'discoveries' of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact, the 'cultural Freud' is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud, as brilliant as ever, was actually revealing the true meaning of his life's work. And so while The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents, and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some, they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively, balanced, and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.
