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The Topological Transformation of Freud's Theory

Jean-Gerard Bursztein author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:5th Jul '19

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In this book the author presents his reading of psychoanalysis in the spirit of its founder Sigmund Freud, and explores the transformations of Freud's work by his followers. The author notes that some of these followers trimmed it down even to exclude the death drive, which was one of Freud's fundamental principles. Freud's theory has also been transformed by Lacan, who, in the mid-1950s embarked on a lifelong enterprise to recast it in a fruitful debate with the sciences and the humanities. Such a transformation brought by Lacan was (somewhat paradoxically) necessary to show the importance of Freud's findings for the understanding of subjectivity.

ISBN: 9780367103293

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 300g

138 pages