How to read Freud
by Cohen, Josh
"In this introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis." "By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: that our innermost truths only ever manifest th…
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- Full title :How to read Freud / Josh Cohen.
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"In this introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis." "By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: that our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes, symptoms, in short, our everyday lives, reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognizable to ourselves as to others."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Granta Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:135 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781862077638, 1862077630
- oclc:ocm57168049
- LC Classification:BF173
- Dewey Decimal:150.1952
Table of Contents
1. Hysterical beginnings --- 2. The unconscious --- 3. Unconscious wit / Dreams --- 4. The comical unconscious --- 5. No --- 6. Doubly uncanny --- 7. The obscure object of desire --- 8. The obscurer object of desire --- 9. The obscurest object of desire --- 10. Masochistic ending.
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