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Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel.
The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold Bloom, Kurt R. Eissler, and Peter Gay. Berman then explores four more writers whose aim was not simply to debunk Freud and destroy his monstrous creation but to cast both into hell: D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Szasz, and Frederick Crews. Each chapter discusses the author's involvement with Freud, exploring the continuities and discontinuities of his or her writings, as well as offering snapshots of the writers, suggesting how their personal and professional lives were inextricably related.
Berman draws out some surprising commonalities between the Freudolaters and Schadenfreudians, going on to discuss the current state of psychoanalysis and the “psychoanalytic credos” by which contemporary analysts live.
Table of Contents
Part I: Freudolaters
1 Lionel Trilling: Tragic Freud
2 Harold Bloom: Agonistic Freud
3 Kurt R. Eissler: Faultless Freud
4 Peter Gay: Rational Freud
Part II: Schadenfreudians
5 D.H. Lawrence: Evil Freud
6 Vladimir Nabokov: Voodoo Freud
7 Thomas Szasz: Duplicitous Freud
8 Frederick Crews: Demonic Freud
Conclusion: Neither Freudolaters nor Schadenfreudians: Contemporary Psychoanalysts
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Product details
| Published | Aug 22 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350471856 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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