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

• Autore: Pederson Trevor C.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Karnac, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8917
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis - Research; Psychoanalysis - Social aspects
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The economics of libido
• ISBN: 0-429-92053-9; 0-367-32775-9; 0-429-90630-7; 0-429-48153-5; 1-78241-305-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797067703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II