Reading Freud

Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory

Tony Thwaites author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:12th Jul '07

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Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time:

  • an overview of Freud′s work which enables the reader to see quickly where, and in which texts, Freud develops his main ideas
  • a guide to reading Freud, and to what can be done with the complexities of his texts
  • an examination of what recent cultural theory draws from Freud, and of why psychoanalysis is of interest for it
  • a discussion about the Freud revealed by recent cultural theory
  • an extensive selection of extracts from Freud′s texts, with commentary.

This book is the definitive guide to the content of Freud′s texts: what′s there and where to find it. It will have wide appeal to students new to Freud in cultural studies, literary theory, philosophy and sociology.

ISBN: 9780761952367

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 410g

184 pages