Tales from the Freudian Crypt : The Death Drive in Text and Context

Todd Dufresne

ISBN 10: 0804734917 / ISBN 13: 9780804734912

Published by Stanford University Press Jan 2000, 2000

About this Item

Neuware - Tales from the Freudian Crypt is a fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies. Writing from the perspective of intellectual history, the author traces the impact that Freud's essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle has had, and continues to have, on twentieth-century thought. Designed as both an introduction and a corrective to the vast literature on Freud, the book explores the trail left by Freud's late theory of the death drive, paying special attention to its ramifications in the fields of biography, biology, psychotherapy, philosophy, and literary theory. The author ironically concludes that if there were such a thing as a death drive, it would look like this seemingly endless and in many ways arbitrary proliferation of the literature on Freud.>.

Seller Inventory # 9780804734912

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales from the Freudian Crypt : The Death Drive in Text and Context
• Publisher: Stanford University Press Jan 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804734917
• ISBN 13: 9780804734912
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

About this title

Synopsis

A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies.

About the Author

Todd Dufresne is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Lakehead University. He is the author of Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context (Stanford, 2000) and Killing Freud.