Freudian repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition
Freudian repression, the Unconscious, and the Dynamics of Inhibition

Author: Simon Boag

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0429914024

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Possibly no other psychoanalytic concept has caused as much ongoing controversy, and attracted so much criticism, as that of 'repression'. Repression involves denying knowledge to oneself about the content of one's own mind and is most commonly implicated in disputes concerning the possibility of repressed memories of trauma (and their subsequent recovery). While fundamental in Freudian psychoanalysis, recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking (e.g., 'mentalization') have downplayed the importance of repression, in part due to less emphasis being placed on the importance of memory within therapy.

Freudian Repression
Freudian Repression

Author: Michael Billig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-11-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521659567

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This book presents a reinterpretation of Freud to show how language can be expressive and repressive.

The Repression of Psychoanalysis
The Repression of Psychoanalysis

Author: Russell Jacoby

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1986-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0226390691

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By examining the private correspondence of a circle of German psychoanalyst emigrés that included Otto Fenichel, Annie Reich, and Edith Jacobson, Russell Jacoby recaptures the radical zeal of classical analysis and the efforts of the Fenichel group to preserve psychoanalysis as a social and political theory, open to a broad range of intellectuals regardless of their medical background. In tracing this effort, he illuminates the repression by psychoanalysis of its own radical past and its transformation into a narrow medical technique. This book is of critical interest to the general reader as well as to psychoanalytic historians, theorists, and therapists.

What Freud Really Meant
What Freud Really Meant

Author: Susan Sugarman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1107116392

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This book presents Freud's theory of the mind as an organic whole, built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time.

Freud's Free Clinics
Freud's Free Clinics

Author: Elizabeth Ann Danto

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780231131810

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Drawing on interviews with witnesses to the early psychoanalytic movement as well as new archival material, this chronicle seeks to rescue from obscurity the history of a movement usually regarded as an expensive form of treatment for the economically & intellectually advantaged.

The Memory Wars
The Memory Wars

Author: Frederick C. Crews

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This volume contains two essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis and its aftermath in the so-called recovered memory movement. The first essay reviews a growing body of evidence indicating that Freud doctored his data and manipulated his colleagues in an effort to consolidate a cult-life following that would neither defy nor upstage him. The second essay challenges the scientific and therapeutic claims of the rapidly growing recovered-memory movement, maintaining that its social effects have been devestating.

Moses and Monotheism
Moses and Monotheism

Author: Sigmund Freud

Publisher: Leonardo Paolo Lovari

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 8898301790

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The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

A Dark Trace
A Dark Trace

Author: Herman Westerink

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9058677540

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Figures of the Unconscious, No. 8Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace," thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. In Freud's view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path, that leads deep into the individual's mental state, into childhood memories, and into the prehistory of culture and religion. Herman Westerink follows this trace and analyzes Freud's thought on the sense of guilt as a central issue in his work, from the earliest studies on the moral and "guilty" characters of the hysterics, via later complex differentiations within the concept of the sense of guilt, and finally to Freud's conception of civilization's discontents and Jewish sense of guilt. The sense of guilt is a key issue in Freudian psychoanalysis, not only in relation to other key concepts in psychoanalytic theory but also in relation to Freud's debates with other psychoanalysts, including Carl Jung and Melanie Klein.