Radical Freud - Reconstructing the Bisexuality Thesis

Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected. Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an orthodox school with an internal stasis that is unassailable from within but increasingly challenged from without as irrelevant.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: overview and methodology
1. The de-radicalisation of Freud
2. Reconstructing the bisexuality thesis I: the Oedipus complex
3. Reconstructing the bisexuality thesis II: primary identification
4. The bisexual dialectic
5. The clinical narrative and bisexuality
Conclusion: the bisexuality of indiscriminate sex

About the author

Thomas Olver is an independent researcher and translator living in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied modern languages, comparative literature and psychology at Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Zurich. He favours a collaborative approach to epistemology. His research and teaching interests include psychoanalysis, semiotics, aesthetics, narratology, modern literature, translation and the history of ideas.

Summary

Radical Freud reveals a radical dimension to Sigmund Freud's sexual theory that has previously been neglected. Thomas Olver argues that Freud's radical heritage has been transformed into an orthodox school with an internal stasis that is unassailable from within but increasingly challenged from without as irrelevant.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Olver, Olver Thomas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032812571
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281257-1
• No. of pages: 171
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Relating to bisexual / pansexual / polysexual people, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis