Freud: Conflict and Culture Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy

Name: Freud: Conflict and Culture Essays on His Life, Work, and Legacy
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ISBN: 9780679772927

ISBN-10: 0679772928

ISBN-13: 9780679772927

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Authors: Michael Roth

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In Freud: Conflict and Culture, Michael S. Roth presents eithgteen essays on the man who has become, in W.H. Auden's phrase, "a whole climate of opinion." This fascinating collections explores Freud's work, the absorption of his theories into mainstream culture, and his hotly contested legacy. Oliver Sacks demonstrates how Freud's early studies anticipated contemporary neuropsychology. Scholar Muriel Dimen reveals a paradoxical liaison between psychoanalysis and feminism. Art Spiegelman (Maus) provides a comic strip that explores Freud's ideas about humor. And Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) projects how future generations may look upon the man who, along with Marx, Darwin, and…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



"Nothing About the Totem Meal!": On Freud's Notes



Freud's World of Work



Sigmund Freud's Notes on Faces and Men: National Portrait Gallery, September 13, 1908



Portrait of a Dream Reader



Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable



Oedipus Politicus: Freud's Paradigm of Social Relations



From Suggestion to Insight, from Hypnosis to Psychoanalysis



Freud's "Dora" Case: The Crucible of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Transference



Psychoanalysis and the Historian



Freud's Reception in the United States



Psychoanalysis: The American Experience



Freud, Film, and Culture



Cracking Jokes: A Brief Inquiry into Various Aspects of Humor



The Freud Controversy: What Is at Issue?



A Century of Psychoanalysis: Critical Retrospect and Prospect



Freud: Current Projections



Strange Hearts: On the Paradoxical Liaison Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism



The Other Road: Freud as Neurologist



Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Contributors


Index