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Against Freud
Todd Dufresne
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Description for Against Freud
Hardback. Against Freud is a highly accessible, informative, and entertaining examination of Freud's controversial ideas and legacy by the world's most knowledgeable critics of psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western society and intellectual life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created, fostered, and repeated. The result is an enormous cross-disciplinary field characterized by contradiction and confusion. Only the experts could possibly make sense of it all—but not always, since no field is as thoroughly undercut by ideology, acrimony, and bad faith as psychoanalysis.
Against Freud collects the frank musings of some of the world's best critics of Freud, providing a convincing and coherent ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804755474
SKU
V9780804755474
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About Todd Dufresne
Todd Dufresne is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Lakehead University. He is the author of Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context (Stanford, 2000) and Killing Freud.
Reviews for Against Freud
"Todd Dufresne is the leading student of the Freud Wars of recent vintage. In his fascinating new book he assembles interviews with some of the leading Warriors, among them Frank Sulloway, Frederick Crews, and Edward Shorter. Dufresne himself is a Freud revisionist, but a judicious and learned one."
Paul Robinson
Stanford University
"A great deal of fascinating ... Read more
Paul Robinson
Stanford University
"A great deal of fascinating ... Read more