Freudian Repression - Conversation Creating the Unconscious

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The importance of repression; 3. Thinking, speaking and repressing; 4. Language, politeness and desire; 5. Oedipal desires and Oedipal parents; 6. Remembering to forget; 7. Words of unconscious love; 8. Repressing an oppressed identity; 9. Ideological implications; References; Index.

Summary

Reinterpreting some of Freud's classic case histories, Billig shows how language is both expressive and repressive and sheds light on the question of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse and the ideology of psychoanalysis. This original book will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Billig
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.11.1999
• EAN: 9780521659567
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65956-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, PSYCHOLOGY / History, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology & anthropology