Killing Freud : twentieth-century culture and the death of psychoanalysis / Todd Dufresne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dufresne, Todd, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xi, 211 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-206) and index.

ISBN:

0826468934

OCLC:

54359492