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Killing Freud Todd Dufresne

Killing Freud By Todd Dufresne

Killing Freud by Todd Dufresne

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Takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. This is a revaluation of psychoanalysis and its place in 20th century history. It is of interest to those curious about the life of the mind after the death of Freud.

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Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis by Todd Dufresne

"Killing Freud" takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, "Killing Freud" ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of Freud.

Killing Freud Reviews

"'Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar.' The Independent 'A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable and truly original scholarship with great wit. Todd Dufresne, a distinguished Freud scholar, has written a remarkable and delightful book which joyously affirms the death of psychoanalysis without trying to prove 'Why Freud Was Wrong'. People will read this book for the sheer fun of it, but they will also learn a lot about psychoanalysis and its role in twentieth-century culture at large.' Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and Remembering Anna O 'Killing Freud is a major attack on both the culture of theory and the culture of therapy, demonstrating that many of the most cherished truths of psychoanalysis are based upon misreadings, misunderstandings and blatant falsifications. Witty, provocative and admirably erudite, this is required reading for anyone with a critical - or in other words sceptical - concern for the history of psychoanalysis and the human sciences.' David Macey, author of The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory"

About Todd Dufresne

Todd Dufresne is Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Lakehead University and is editor of Returns of the French Freud and Freud Under Analysis, and author of Tales From the Freudian Crypt. He is currently working on the origin of the psycho-neuroses and on the sensational 1923 Chicago trial of Leopold and Loeb, at which Freudian ideas first began to influence criminology.

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Deaths of Sigmund Freud; A Note on Bad Manners; Part I: Suggestion & Fraud in the Age of Critical Freud Studies; 1. The Strange Case of "Anna O.": An Overview of the 'Revisionist' Assessment; 2. Rhetoric, Representation, and the Hysterical Josef Breuer. 3. Critical Readers of Freud Unite: A New Era for Freud Studies; Part II. Selected Memories of Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Politics; 4. Freud and His Followers, Or How Psychoanalysis Brings Out the Worst in Everyone; 5. Gossip, Fiction, and the History of the History of Psychoanalysis: An Open Letter; 6. Jacques What's-His-Name: Death, Memory, and Archival Sickness; 7. The Politics of Representing Freud: A Short Account of a Media War,; 8. This Time With Feeling; 9. Funny Business: The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan; 10. Going to the Dogs, Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst, By David Beddow; Part III: Analysts at Play, Working; 11. Psychoanalysis On Thin Ice: Jones and Figure Skating; 12. Psychoanalysis, Doggie StylePart IV: Last Words; 13. Psychoanalysis, Parasites, and the "Culture of Banality"; 14. The Futures of Psychoanalysis; Notes; Index.

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GOR013660474
9780826485816
0826485812
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis by Todd Dufresne
Todd Dufresne
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Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2005-03-24
224
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