Our two-track minds : rehabilitating Freud on culture / Robert A. Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Robert A., author.

Series:

Psychoanalytic horizons.

Psychoanalytic horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"Critically examines and revises many of Freud's seminal ideas about culture from the perspective of contemporary anthropology, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory, and literature and the arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Stream and the Road

Part I. DROSS INTO GOLD: Recuperating Freud's Social Theory

1. Freud's Theory of Society

2. Biology and Culture in Civilization and Its Discontents

3. Yes, the Primal Crime Did Take Place

PART II. LIKE RABBITS OR LIKE ROBOTS? Sexual versus Non-Sexual Reproduction in the Western Tradition

4. The Genealogy of Civilization

5. Sons or Sonnets?

6. The Pygmalion Complex

PART III. OUR TWO TRACK-MINDS: A Dual Inheritance Perspective on Some Classic Psychoanalytic Issues

7. Incest Avoidance: Oedipal and Preoedipal, Natural and Cultural

8. Sexuality: Biological Fact or Cultural Construction?

9. Consciousness, Language, and Dual Inheritance References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781501370069

1501370065

9781501370052

1501370057

9781501370045

1501370049

OCLC:

1233306828