Freud's Theory of Culture

Freud's Theory of Culture
Author: Abraham Drassinower
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780742522626

Abraham Drassinower takes a fresh look at Freud, countering his prevalent image as a man pessimistically renouncing the possibility of social, political, and cultural change.

Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies

Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies
Author: Henk de Berg
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781571133014

Rarely has a single figure had as much influence on Western thought as Sigmund Freud. His ideas permeate our culture to such a degree that an understanding of them is indispensable. Yet many otherwise well-informed students in the humanities labor under misconceptions or lack of knowledge about Freudian theory. There are countless introductions to Freudian psychoanalysis but, surprisingly, none that combine a genuinely accessible account of Freud's ideas with an introduction to their use in literary and cultural studies, as this book does. It is written specifically for use by advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses dealing with literary and cultural criticism, yet will also be of interest to the general reader. The book consists of two parts. Part one explains Freud's key ideas, focusing on the role his theories of repression, conscious and unconscious mental processes, sexuality, dreams, free associations, "Freudian slips," resistance, and transference play in psychoanalysis, and on the relationship between ego, superego, and id. Here de Berg refutes many popular misconceptions, using examples throughout. The assumption underlying this account is that Freud offers not simply a model of the mind, but an analysis of the relation between the individual and society. Part two discusses the implications of Freudian psychoanalysis for the study of literature and culture. Among the topics analyzed are Hamlet, Heinrich Heine's Lore-Ley, Freud's Totem and Taboo and its influence on literature, the German student movement of the late 1960s, and the case of the Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux and the public reactions to it. Existing books focus either on Freudian psychoanalysis in general or on psychoanalytic literary or cultural criticism; those in the latter category tend to be abstract and theoretical in nature. None of them are suitable for readers who are interested in psychoanalysis as a tool for literary and cultural criticism but have no firm knowledge of Freud's ideas. Freu

The Freud Encyclopedia

The Freud Encyclopedia
Author: Edward Erwin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135950261

The first in-depth Encyclopedia on the life, work, and theories of Sigmund Freud, this A-Z reference includes the most recent debates on such topics as the theory of dreams and the Oedipus complex, as well as biographical sketches of leading figures in the Freudian movement. Coverage also includes philosophers who anticipated or influenced Freud, such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and the many movements influenced by his work, from the early twentieth-century Surrealists to the present day.

Freudian Fraud

Freudian Fraud
Author: Edwin Fuller Torrey
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

There may not be any more Freudians, but there seems no end to those who, like psychiatrist Torrey, would blame Freud and his theories for everything that is wrong with modernity, particularly in America. In its own malevolent way, quite interesting and thoroughly readable. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory
Author: Maria-Daniella Dick
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030471942

Late Capitalist Freud in Literary, Cultural, and Political Theory proposes that late Freudian theory has had an historical influence on the configuration of contemporary life and is central to the construction of twenty-first-century capitalism. This book investigates how we continue to live in the Freudian century, turning its attentions to specific crisis points within neoliberalism—the rise of figures like Trump, the development of social media as a new superego force, the economics that underpin the wellness and self-care industries as well as the contemporary consumption of popular culture—to maintain the continued historical importance of Freudian thought in all its dimensions. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, cultural studies, and political theory, this book assesses the contribution that an historical and theoretical consideration of the late Freud can make to analyzing certain aspects of late capital.

Freud

Freud
Author: Michael S. Roth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This volume, meant to reflect the lively and eclectic spirit of the show, is a gathering of variously challenging, erudite, and amusing essays by scholars, critics, and writers.

Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis

Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis
Author: Steven Marcus
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1987
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393304107

Essays discuss Freud's theory of sexuality, the origins of psychoanalysis, cultural change, psychoanalytic theory, and two of Freud's most famous cases

Killing Freud

Killing Freud
Author: Todd Dufresne
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826493392

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.

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Author: Laura Marcus
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-06-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1526184206

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any other in Freud's massive oeuvre, has shaped a vast amount of work in linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, film theory, psychology, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of ideas. This influence is reflected in the editor's introduction, which includes a substantial discussion of the theory and practice of representation, and the six essays specially commissioned for this volume. The contributors are renowned for their knowledge of Freudian theory and for their interdisciplinary expertise in a wide range of fields. They examine, for example, the relationship of Freud's text to theories of interpretation, autobiography and literary production. The book as a whole gives a clear sense both of the context of Freud's text and of its influence throughout the twentieth century. This volume is an ideal introduction to Freud's work for students and teachers of English and other literatures, philosophy and social and cultural studies, as well as the wider audience concerned with psychoanalysis and its cultural ramifications.