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5%OFFOctave Mannoni - Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious (Radical Thinkers) - 9781781688946 - V9781781688946
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Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious (Radical Thinkers)

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Description for Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious (Radical Thinkers) Paperback. A clearly written and highly organized introduction of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Octave Mannoni worked in France, Madagascar and Africa throughout the twentieth century to extend Lacanian psychoanalytical methods into the field of ethnology. He is best known for his research into the psychic repercussions of colonialism's constitutive elements: the domination of a mass by a minority, economic exploitation, paternalism and racialism.

Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious is a well-crafted and concise introduction to the life, work and theories of psychoanalysis' founder. Mannoni draws on the perspective provided by his Lacanian work on colonialism to provide a unique intellectual biography of Freud, tracing the genesis and development of various key ... Read more

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Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688946
SKU
V9781781688946
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About Octave Mannoni
Octave Mannoni (1898-1989) was a leading thinker in the French psychoanalytical tradition inspired by Jacques Lacan. After travelling to Africa and residing for more than twenty years in Madagascar, where he held various positions while working as an ethnologist, Mannoni returned to France to develop his influential work on colonization.

Reviews for Freud: The Theory of the Unconscious (Radical Thinkers)
Insightful and illuminating ... A concentrated exposition of Freudian ideas.
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