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Foucault Versus Freud - Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality

English · Hardback

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In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault.


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1. Introduction: Foucault Versus Freud 2. The Appeal of the Oedipus Complex 3. The Masturbation Crusade 4. Surveillance, Confession, Medicalization: Foucault on the Masturbation Crusade 5.The Preservation of Victorianism: Freud's Early Theories as Extension of the Masturbation Crusade 6. Foucault on the Ease of Transition from the Masturbation Crusade to the Oedipal Theory 7. The Dangers of Fantasy: Masturbation and Incestuous Desire in the Little Hans Case 8. Foucault's Critique of Freud's Oedipal Theory: Conclusions and Implications


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Jerome C. Wakefield is university professor, professor of Social Work, affiliate professor of Philosophy, associate faculty in the Center for Bioethics in the School of Global Public Health, and honorary faculty in the Psychoanalytic Association of New York Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, at New York University.


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In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault.

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