Whose Freud? [[electronic resource] ] : the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary culture / / edited by Peter Brooks and Alex Woloch

• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/5
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis and culture
• Altri autori: BrooksPeter <1938-> WolochAlex <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Unconscious Deeps and Empirical Shallows -- Psychoanalysis and Its Discontents -- Quandaries of the Incest Taboo -- The Vortex Beneath the Story -- Discussion -- Introduction -- Is Anatomy Destiny? Freud and Biological Determinism -- Bridging the Gap Between Two Scenes -- Psychoanalysis as a Hermeneutic Science -- The Pain in the Patient's Knee -- Discussion -- Introduction -- Freud and Homosexuality -- The Language of Care -- Speaking Psychoanalysis -- Discussion -- Introduction -- Reflections on Trauma, Absence, and Loss -- States of Emergency: Toward a Freudian Historiography of Modernity -- Early Modern Subjectivity and the Place of Psychoanalysis in Cultural Analysis: The Case of Richard Norwood -- Whose Psychohistory? -- Discussion -- Introduction -- Can Psychoanalysis and Cognitive-Emotional Neuroscience Collaborate in Remodeling Our Concept of Mind-Brain? -- Freud's Neuromental Model: Analytic Structures and Local Habitations -- Freud's Theory of the Mind and Modern Functional Imaging Experiments -- The Changing Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind -- Discussion -- Introduction -- Psychoanalytical Theory and Kinds of Truth -- On Truth -- Truth in Psychoanalysis -- What Kind of Truth? -- Discussion -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis is very much at issue. Is it still valid as a theory of the mind? Have its therapeutic applications been rendered obsolete by drugs? Why does it still figure in debates about sexual identity, despite its rejection by many feminists? How does it contribute to cultural analysis? This book offers a new assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together an exceptional group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell, Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Lear, and others. These contributors, who are active in literature, philosophy, film, history, cultural studies, neuroscience, psychotherapy, and other disciplines, debate how psychoanalysis has enriched-and been enriched by-these fields.
• Titolo autorizzato: Whose Freud
• ISBN: 1-281-72974-4; 9786611729745; 0-300-12783-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910664587103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II