Freud Revisited

Freud Revisited
Author: R. Horrocks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2001-02-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0333985443

Freud Revisited sees Freud as one of the last great exponents of Enlightenment rationalism; yet he also forms part of modernism - which shattered traditional forms in art - and he leads forward to certain postmodern ideas. The book examines some of Freud's themes which remain challenging and relevant today - for example, psychoanalysis as a form of narrative-construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge gained through psychotherapy, and the unconscious, which subverts any notion of stable human identity.

The Fetish Revisited

The Fetish Revisited
Author: J. Lorand Matory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478002433

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.

That Obscure Subject of Desire

That Obscure Subject of Desire
Author: Ronnie C. Lesser
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780415916707

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

After Freud Left

After Freud Left
Author: John Burnham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226081370

From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of psychoanalysis in America and to reflect on what has happened to Freud’s legacy in the United States in the century since his visit. There has been a flood of recent scholarship on Freud’s life and on the European and world history of psychoanalysis, but historians have produced relatively little on the proliferation of psychoanalytic thinking in the United States, where Freud’s work had monumental intellectual and social impact. The essays in After Freud Left provide readers with insights and perspectives to help them understand the uniqueness of Americans’ psychoanalytic thinking, as well as the forms in which the legacy of Freud remains active in the United States in the twenty-first century. After Freud Left will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American history, general intellectual and cultural history, and psychology and psychiatry.

Sigmund Freud Revisited

Sigmund Freud Revisited
Author: Richard W. Noland
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Noland's chronological analysis covers the totality of Freud's career and presents the material in such a way that a humanist can understand and make use of it: He makes this complicated material accessible to the reader who has not been trained in medicine, empirical science, or social science."--BOOK JACKET.

The Weird and the Eerie

The Weird and the Eerie
Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1910924393

A noted cultural critic unearths the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century culture through a wide range of literature, film, and music references—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan. What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? Two closely related but distinct modes, and each possesses its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, but this genre alone does not fully encapsulate the pull of the outside and the unknown. In several essays, Mark Fisher argues that a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of transitory concepts such as the Weird and the Eerie. Featuring discussion of the works of: H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christopher Nolan.

The forgotten book by Freud and Bullit

The forgotten book by Freud and Bullit
Author: Fanny Elman Schutt
Publisher: Hakabooks
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 8415084773

This book is for anybody who is interested in leaders and how they captivate others. It weaves together important events in the history of the 20th century and psychoanalytical concepts, in order to help us understand the mechanisms and psychical conflicts behind leadership and submission to leaders. In an example from our times, these phenomena can even lead to the extreme of suicidal fanaticism.?

Studies on Hysteria Revisited

Studies on Hysteria Revisited
Author: Charles Melman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000454762

Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria. In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of hysteria to Freud’s major discovery of the principal concepts of trauma, incompatibility, repression and the unconscious. Peppered with invaluable clinical examples, the author guides readers through difficult concepts as he links hysteria to the birth of psychoanalysis itself, and demonstrates how the reader may become implicated in this discourse. Capturing Melman’s indomitable spirit, Studies on Hysteria Revisited will be an important read for graduate students, clinicians, and those in psychoanalytic formation.

Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex

Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex
Author: Jerome C. Wakefield
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-09-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000643352

In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science context and critically rethinking the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis. Wakefield logically evaluates four central Freudian arguments: the "undirected anxiety" argument which contends that Hans suffered from anxiety before he developed his horse phobia; the "day the horse fell down" argument where, engaging in some scholarly detective work, Wakefield resolves a century-old dispute between behaviorists and psychoanalysts about when Hans witnessed a frightening horse accident; the "N=1 sexual repression" argument that the trajectory of Hans’s sexual desires matches the Oedipal theory’s predictions; and lastly, the "detailed symptom characteristics" argument that the Oedipal theory is needed to understand otherwise inexplicable details of Hans’s symptoms. Wakefield demonstrates that, although Freud’s arguments are brilliantly conceived, he misread the facts of the Hans case and failed to support the Oedipal theory as judged by his own stated evidential standards. However, this failure creates an opportunity for renewed consideration of psychoanalysis’s distinctive contribution: the understanding of an individual’s unique meaning system and confrontation with meanings outside of focal awareness in order to reshape an individual’s fate. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, and will prove essential for scholars working in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy of science, and the history of psychiatry.