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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460138603321

Autore

Pederson Trevor C.

Titolo

The economics of libido : psychic bisexuality, the superego, and the centrality of the Oedipus complex / / Trevor C. Pederson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Karnac, , 2015

ISBN

0-367-32775-9

0-429-90630-7

0-429-48153-5

1-78241-305-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis - Research

Psychoanalysis - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psychic bisexuality; CHAPTER TWO "An array of ideal values": ego psychology and the destiny of the Oedipus complex; CHAPTER THREE "We cannot fall out of this world": psychoanalysis and social ontology; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX On Wittgenstein's private language argument; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua psychologist to link the depths of the mind to its surface. Beginning with the proposition that egoism and altruism are a more accurate representation of the binary of activity and passivity, Economics revisits Freud's work to contextualize his central concepts and expand upon them.  Egoism and altruism are further divided into masculine and feminine drives which can exist in either sex due to psychic bisexuality. Pederson's Freud places the Oedipus complex as the height of pers