Freudian Fadeout
Freudian Fadeout

Author: Arij Ouweneel

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0786490462

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In Western culture, the psychoanalysis that has guided popular psychology for almost a century is now on the retreat. Better equipped with proven results, cognitive and evolutionary psychology has driven psychoanalysis out of the spotlight. In cultural and film studies, however, the debate between cognitive sciences and psychoanalysis remains contentious. This volume explores this state of things by examining criticism of 18 films, juxtaposing them with cognitive-based films to reveal the flaws in the psychoanalytical concepts. It pays particular attention to simulation theory, the concept that narratives "learned" from films could work in human minds as simulations for solutions to particular problems. By introducing the idea of narrative stimulation to film studies, this work argues for a different method of film critique, encouraging further research into this nascent field.

Freudian Fadeout
Freudian Fadeout

Author: Arij Ouweneel

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-08-13

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0786468939

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In Western culture, the psychoanalysis that has guided popular psychology for almost a century is now on the retreat. Better equipped with proven results, cognitive and evolutionary psychology has driven psychoanalysis out of the spotlight. In cultural and film studies, however, the debate between cognitive sciences and psychoanalysis remains contentious. This volume explores this state of things by examining criticism of 18 films, juxtaposing them with cognitive-based films to reveal the flaws in the psychoanalytical concepts. It pays particular attention to simulation theory, the concept that narratives "learned" from films could work in human minds as simulations for solutions to particular problems. By introducing the idea of narrative stimulation to film studies, this work argues for a different method of film critique, encouraging further research into this nascent field.

Freud's Dora
Freud's Dora

Author: Marge Thorell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1476645345

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Freud's 17-year-old case study "Dora" is well known in the literature of psychoanalysis. Yet few know the full story--told here for the first time--of this notable woman, who walked out on Freud after three months and, in a sense, cured herself. Born into an important Jewish-Austrian family, Ida Bauer Adler suffered from "petite hysteria"--loss of voice, difficulty breathing, migraines, fainting spells--brought on by the overt sexuality of her relatives. Growing up in a home beset with syphilis and tuberculosis, she overcame her father's marital infidelity, her mother's so-called housewife psychosis and her own seduction by the husband of her father's mistress. She married, raised a son, started a small business, stayed close with her brother, Otto, leader of the Austrian Socialist party, and survived Hitler's invasion of Vienna. Eventually, she made her way to the U.S. to rejoin her famous son, maestro of the San Francisco Opera House.

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.

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The last phase, 1919-1939
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The last phase, 1919-1939

Author: Ernest Jones

Publisher:

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This is not intended to be a popular biography of Freud: several have been written already, containing serious distortions and untruths. Its aims are simply to record the main facts of Freud's life while they are still accessible, and--a more ambitious one--to try to relate his personality and the experiences of his life to the development of his ideas --Preface.

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.

Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud
Life And Work Of Sigmund Freud

Author: Ernest Jones

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 1975-01-09

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780465097005

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An analytical biography of the precursor of psychoanalysis and famous neurologist, which reveals his childhood, courtship and marriage, career, ill health and death from cancer. Bibliogs.

Tales from the Freudian Crypt
Tales from the Freudian Crypt

Author: Todd Dufresne

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780804738859

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A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.

Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive
Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive

Author: Victor Blüml

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0429620497

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Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive provides a sustained discussion of the death drive from the perspective of different psychoanalytic traditions. Ever since Freud introduced the notion of the death drive, it has been the subject of intense debate in psychoanalysis and beyond. The death drive is arguably the most unsettling psychoanalytic concept. What this concept points to is more unsettling still. It uniquely illuminates the forces of destruction and dissolution at work in individuals as well as in society. This book first introduces Freud’s use of the term, tracing the debates and developments his ideas have led to. The subsequent essays by leading Viennese psychoanalysts demonstrate the power of the death drive to illuminate psychoanalytic theory, clinical practice, and the study of culture. Since this book originally arose from a conference in Vienna, its final segment is dedicated to the forced exile of the early Viennese psychoanalysts due to the Nazi threat. Due to its wide scope and the many perspectives it offers, this book is a tribute to the disturbing relevance of the death drive today. Contemporary Perspectives on the Freudian Death Drive is of special interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social and cultural scientists, as well as anyone intending to understand the sources and vicissitudes of human destructiveness.