Late Sigmund Freud - Or, Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, All Riddles of Life

A fundamental reassessment of the meaning of Freud's last phase of work: the applied psychoanalysis of culture and society.

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Death and the cultural turn in psychoanalysis; 1. Positivism and the specter of non-existence: the romantic depths of Freud's The Future of an Illusion; 2. Mysticism, war, love, and religion: Civilization and its Discontents, reality, and Romain Rolland; 3. 'The audacity cannot be avoided': Freud and Moses, reality and fiction; Conclusion. Ethics, spirituality, and psychoanalysis: prequel to the 'late Freud'; Coda. 'Undisguised resentment', war, and the challenge of being cultured; References; Index.

About the author

Todd Dufresne is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University, Ontario. He is the author or editor of Returns of the 'French Freud' (1997), Tales from the Freudian Crypt (2000), Killing Freud (2003), Against Freud (2007), Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' (2011), The Future of an Illusion (2012) and Civilization and its Discontents (2016), amongst others.

Summary

In his last phase, Freud produced his most popular works, The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Dufresne provides a fundamental reassessment of these works, arguing that they represent Freud's final word on the authentic meaning of psychoanalysis and its application to culture and society.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Dufresne, Todd (Lakehead University Dufresne, Dufresne Todd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781316631027
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63102-7
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)