Reading Freud

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5237-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 292 g

Reihe: Core Cultural Theorists series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thwaites, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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