Speculations After Freud: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture - Softcover

Shamdasani, Sonu; Munchow, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415076560 ISBN 13: 9780415076562

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Speculations After Freud This collection of essays considers the interrelationship of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cultural studies, and questions the future of a discipline which has emerged from the intimate experience of therapy to exert a powerful hold over contemporary culture. Full description

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These are excellent essays raising provocative questions about psychoanalysis as a therapeutic practice, an interpretive method, and a cultural ideology. Highly recommended.

Synopsis:

Psychoanalysis has transformed our culture. We constantly use and refer to ideas from psychoanalysis, often unconsciously. Psychology, philosophy, politics, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies, and other disciplines have been permeated by the competing schools of psychoanalysis. But what of psychoanalysis itself? Where is it going 100 years after Freud's own speculations took shape? Does it still have a role to play in cultural debate, or should it perhaps be abandoned? This text confronts the dilemmas of contemporary psychoanalysis by bringing together a number of notable writers on psychoanalysis, philosophy and culture. The advocates and critics of psychoanalysis, both institutional and theoretical, offer a critical appraisal of the powerful role played by psychoanalytic speculation in all areas of culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415076560
• ISBN 13: 9780415076562
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248