Freudians and schadenfreudians : loving and hating psychoanalysis / Jeffrey Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Influence.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel. The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold Bloom, Kurt R. Eissler, and Peter Gay. Berman then explores four more writers whose aim was not simply to debunk Freud and destroy his monstrous creation but to cast both into hell: D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Szasz, and Frederick Crews. Each chapter discusses the author's involvement with Freud, exploring the continuities and discontinuities of his or her writings, as well as offering snapshots of the writers, suggesting how their personal and professional lives were inextricably related. Berman draws out some surprising commonalities between the Freudolaters and Schadenfreudians, going on to discuss the current state of psychoanalysis and the "psychoanalytic credos" by which contemporary analysts live.

Contents:

Introduction: Sigmund Freud's Schadenfreude Part I: Freudolaters 1 Lionel Trilling: Tragic Freud 2 Harold Bloom: Agonistic Freud 3 Kurt R. Eissler: Faultless Freud 4 Peter Gay: Rational Freud Part II: Schadenfreudians 5 D.H. Lawrence: Evil Freud 6 Vladimir Nabokov: Voodoo Freud 7 Thomas Szasz: Duplicitous Freud 8 Frederick Crews: Demonic Freud Conclusion: Neither Freudolaters nor Schadenfreudians: Contemporary Psychoanalysts Works Cited

ISBN:

9781350471856

1350471852

9781350471863

1350471860

9781350471849

1350471844

OCLC:

1438670005