Killing Freud
Title | Killing Freud PDF eBook |
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.
Tales from the Freudian Crypt
Title | Tales from the Freudian Crypt PDF eBook |
Author | Todd Dufresne |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780804738859 |
A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.
Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger
Title | Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger PDF eBook |
Author | Havi Carel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9401201404 |
Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger argues that mortality is a fundamental structuring element in human life. The ordinary view of life and death regards them as dichotomous and separate. This book explains why this view is unsatisfactory and presents a new model of the relationship between life and death that sees them as interlinked. Using Heidegger’s concept of being towards death and Freud’s notion of the death drive, it demonstrates the extensive influence death has on everyday life and gives an account of its structural and existential significance. By bringing the two perspectives together, this book presents a reading of death that establishes its significance for life, creates a meeting point for philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives, and examines the problems and strengths of each. It then puts forth a unified view, based on the strengths of each position and overcoming the problems of each. Finally, it works out the ethical consequences of this view. This volume is of interest for philosophers, mental health practitioners and those working in the field of death studies.
The Death of Sigmund Freud
Title | The Death of Sigmund Freud PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edmundson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2007-09-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1582345376 |
An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Title | Civilization and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | 81 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0486282538 |
(Dover thrift editions).
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
Title | Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death PDF eBook |
Author | Liran Razinsky |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1107009723 |
A convincing critique of the neglect of death in psychoanalytic theory, arguing that death has been a repressed subject in psychoanalysis.
Moses and Monotheism
Title | Moses and Monotheism PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | Leonardo Paolo Lovari |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2016-11-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8898301790 |
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.