The economics of libido : psychic bisexuality, the superego, and the centrality of the Oedipus complex / Trevor C. Pederson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pederson, Trevor C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis--Research.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua psychologist to link the depths of the mind to its surface. Beginning with the proposition that egoism and altruism are a more accurate representation of the binary of activity and passivity, Economics revisits Freud's work to contextualize his central concepts and expand upon them. Egoism and altruism are further divided into masculine and feminine drives which can exist in either sex due to psychic bisexuality. Pederson's Freud places the Oedipus complex as the height of pers

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psychic bisexuality; CHAPTER TWO "An array of ideal values": ego psychology and the destiny of the Oedipus complex; CHAPTER THREE "We cannot fall out of this world": psychoanalysis and social ontology; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX On Wittgenstein's private language argument; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-92053-9

0-367-32775-9

0-429-90630-7

0-429-48153-5

1-78241-305-7

9780429481536

OCLC:

905984521