By reading short extracts from across Freud's work on 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.
"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 ac…