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Reading Freud
Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory



July 2007 | 184 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Cultural 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 reading and argument about the Freud revealed by recent cultural theory
  • An extensive selection of extracts from Freud's texts, with commentary

This book is now 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.


 
Introduction
Borders

 
 
PART ONE: UNCONSCIOUS
 
The slip
Early writings

 
 
I: Unconscious and conscious
 
II: Ego, id and superego
 
III: The inhuman
 
PART TWO: SEXUALITY
 
Forgetting
 
I: Drive
 
II: Development
 
Sexual difference
 
PART THREE: SOCIAL
 
Siren
 
Foreign territory
 
I: Fantasies of the social
 
II: The social super-ego
 
III: The opening of history

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