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Author: Frederick C. Crews
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederick Crews's Unauthorized Freud surveys the growing field of revisionist Freud studies and decisively forges the case against the man and his creation.
Author: Kurt Jacobsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0742522636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreud's Foes, the latest title in the Polemics series, addresses Freud's fiercest contemporary critics. The book defends psychoanalysis (while accepting that it has inherent flaws) and argues that although today's "foes" pose as daring savants, they are only the latest wave of critiques that psychoanalysis has encountered since its controversial birth and their arguments are easily debunked.
Author: Jose Brunner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1351310747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreud and the Politics of Psychoanalysis is a sympathetic critique of Freud's work, tracing its political content and context from his early writings on hysteria to his late essays on civilization and religion. Brunner's central claim is that politics is a pervasive and essential component of all of Freud's discourse, since Freud viewed both the psyche and society primarily as constellations of power and domination. Brunner shows that when read politically, Freud's discourse can be seen to unite mechanics and meaning into a plausible, fruitful and internally consistent theory of the mind, therapy, family and society.Part one deals with the medical and political background of Freud's work. It explains how Freud postulated mental principles that were the same for all races and nations. The second part is concerned with the logic and language of Freud's theory of the mind. Brunner also details how Freud introduced dynamics of dominance and subjugation into the very core of the psyche. Part three addresses dynamics of power in the clinical setting, which Freud forged out of a curious blend of authoritarian and liberal elements. Brunner focuses on how this setting creates an arena for verbal politics. He also examines various social factors that influenced the therapeutic practice of psychoanalysis, such as class, gender and education. Part four explores Freud's analysis of the family and large-scale social institutions. Though Brunner is critical of the authoritarian bias in Freud's social theory, he suggests that it provides a useful vocabulary to unmask hidden psychological aspects of domination and subjection. This is an essential book for those interested in the history of ideas and psychoanalysis.Josu Brunner is Senior Lecturer at the Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, both at Tel Aviv University. Born in Zorich, Switzerland, he has been living in Israel for most of the last three decades. He is author of numerous publications on the history and politics of psychoanalysis and contemporary political theory.
Author: Kirk A. Bingaman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2003-02-27
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780791456538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how religious believers can—and why they should—engage the work of Sigmund Freud, despite his well-known dismissal of faith.
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1421403544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, Rank contributed two chapters. His was the only other name ever to be listed on the title page. This complete collection of the known correspondence between the two brings to life their twenty-year collaboration and their painful break. The 250 letters compiled by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer humanize and dramatize psychoanalytic thinking, practice, and organization from 1906 through 1925. The letters concern not just the work and trenchant contemporaneous observations of Freud and Rank but also their friendships, supporters, rivals, families, travels, and other personal and professional matters. Most interestingly, the letters trace Rank’s growing independence, the father-son schism over Rank’s “anti-Oedipal” heresy, his surprising reconciliation with Freud, and the moment when they parted ways permanently. A candid picture of how the pioneers of modern psychotherapy behaved with their patients, colleagues, and families—and each other—the correspondence between Freud and Rank demonstrates how psychoanalysis developed in relation to early twentieth-century science, art, philosophy, and politics. A rich primary source on psychiatry, history, and culture, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank is a cogent and powerful narrative of early psychoanalysis and its two most important personalities.
Author: David Begelman Ph.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2024-06-11
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFREEDOM, FREUD and OTHER FOIBLES is an anthology of articles on a range of philosophical and scientific issues such as free will and determinism, psychoanalysis, abortion, reincarnation, addiction, judicial activism, animal rights, method acting and such authors as Shakespeare, Stanislavsky, Camus, Jung, Viktor Frankl and Christopher Bollas.
Author: Mark Holowchak
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0765708213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. The format of this volume allows for a close examination of the contentious issues in some of the most radical claims of Freud's psychoanalysis from different viewpoints.
Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0300127839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture—and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis is very much at issue. Is it still valid as a theory of the mind? Have its therapeutic applications been rendered obsolete by drugs? Why does it still figure in debates about sexual identity, despite its rejection by many feminists? How does it contribute to cultural analysis? This book offers a new assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together an exceptional group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell, Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Lear, and others. These contributors, who are active in literature, philosophy, film, history, cultural studies, neuroscience, psychotherapy, and other disciplines, debate how psychoanalysis has enriched—and been enriched by—these fields.
Author: Tony Thwaites
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2007-07-12
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1848607652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural 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.
Author: Todd Dufresne
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780804738859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.
