Shopping With Freud

Zusatztext `A fascinating and seductive book.' - The Guardian Informationen zum Autor Rachel Bowlby Klappentext What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing psychology to psychoanalysis. Rachel Bowlby shows how ideas about consumption are brought to bear on contemporary conceptions of choice in areas that seem far removed from a straightforward matter of shopping. She also shows that arguments and assumptions about the psychology of consumers themselves throw light on genderal questions of human psychology. Zusammenfassung A look at some of the ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing to psychology. Bowlby examines the arguments and assumptions about the values of the consumer culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Promoting Dorien Gray 3. `But she could have been reading Lady Chatterley': the obscene side to the canon 4. Lolita and the poetry of advertising 5. A happy event: the births of psychoanalysis 6. Frankenstein's woman-to-be: choice and the new reproductive technologies 7. Make up your mind: scenes from the psychology of selling and shopping

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Bowlby
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.1993
• EAN: 9780415060073
• ISBN: 978-0-415-06007-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology