On the couch : writers analyze Sigmund Freud / edited by Andrew Blauner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blauner, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis.

psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Writers analyze Sigmund Freud

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis and champion of the "talking cure" who charted the human unconscious. He is also a polarizing figure, with many defenders and detractors. Some of the concepts associated with Freud include free association, transference, Oedipus complex, repression, the unconscious, and a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego, and super-ego. Andrew Blauner envisions this book as a fresh new assessment of Freud's relevance and resonance. Blauner puts "Freud on the couch, analyzing the great analyst, exploring who he was, why he did what he did," and his lasting impact on Western thought, culture, and society, both as a psychiatrist and as a writer. He has contributions from a diverse group of 25 writers with different views and perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Interpretations. It's complicated / Sarah Boxer

Penis envy / Jennifer Finney Boylan

On "Mourning and melancholia" / Rick Moody

Dreams of the dead

IV / Alex Pheby

Freud as a fiction writer / Sheila Kohler

Sigmund Freud, private investigator / David Gordon

Freud and the writers / Colm Tóibín

The open-armed, beckoning embrace / Thomas Lynch

The talking cure. The Freuds / Casey Schwartz

My Oedipus Complex / David Michaelis

From Freud's Ordinary unhappiness to Winnicott's Good enough / Susie Orbach

Growing up Freudian / Peter D. Kramer

Psychoanalysis in the Cold War American race movie / Gerald Early

Once a neurologist / Richard Panek

Tangling with Freud in a post-Freudian world / Sherry Turkle

Personal history. Freud's first scientific publication / Mark Solms

Searching for Martha Freud / Daphne Merkin

Freud's dogs / Rivka Galchen

A night at the Freud Museum / Susie Boyt

Sigmund Freud and me / Esther Freud

After Freud. Freud the sceptic / Adam Gopnik

Playing the game / Michael S. Roth

Against interpretation / André Aciman

Freud the essayist / Phillip Lopate

Freud now? / Siri Hustvedt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: On the couch

ISBN:

9780691242439

0691242437

OCLC:

1393523742