The Freudian Slip: Psychoanalysis and Textual Criticism - Softcover

Timpanaro, Sebastiano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805272917 ISBN 13: 9780805272918

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1986

Synopsis

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in Freud s work as arbitrary and constrained, Sebastiano Timpanaro advances an alternative picture keyed to the dynamics of banalization, disimprovement, and contextual play borrowed from the field of literary criticism. Underscored with a Marxist defense of science against the professed materialism of the psychoanalytic individual drama, Timpanaro s analysis demands a strong reassessment of the Freudian legacy and a renewed debate over its value for the Left."

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Review

A firework display of erudition --Perry Anderson

About the Author

Sebastiano Timpanaro was born in Parma in 1923 and died in 2000. He studied classical philology at the University of Florence. His works include "On Materialism" and "Freudian Slip," as well as major studies of Leopardi and Edmondo De Amicis. Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, "Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity," and "The New Old World." He teaches history at UCLA and is on the editorial board of "New Left Review."

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805272917
• ISBN 13: 9780805272918
• Binding: Paperback