Killing Freud: 20th Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis

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A&C Black, 2005 M04 29 - 224 páginas
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, the book 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.
"Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar." —The Independent, U.K.
"A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable
and truly original scholarship with great wit." —Ikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and
Remembering Anna O>
 

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An Overview of
4
Rhetoric Representation and the Hysterical Josef Breuer
26
A New Era
35
Freud and His Followers Or How Psychoanalysis Brings
53
Death Memory and Archival
72
The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan
93
Going to the Dogs Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst
101
Jones and Figure Skating
114
Psychoanalysis Doggie Style
136
Psychoanalysis Parasites and the Culture of Banality
150
Crisis Death and the Futures of Psychoanalysis
164
Notes
179
Acknowledgements
196
Index
207
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Todd Dufresne is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Lakehead University and is editor of Returns of the French Freud and Freud Under Analysis, and author of Tales From the Freudian Crypt. He is currently working on the origin of the psycho-neuroses and on the sensational 1923 Chicago trial of Leopold and Loeb, at which Freudian ideas first began to influence criminology.

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