Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work, which succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.
"Was 'death' a lacuna at the heart of Sigmund Freud's work? Liran Razinsky argues that the question of death is repressed, rejected and avoided by Freud, therefore resulting in an impairment of the entire theoretical structure of psychoanalysis. Razinsky supports his claim throu…
Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and …
Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and …
Edmundson probes Freud's ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism and fundamentalism, and he finally grapples with the post-Freudian demise of psychoanalysis up to the present day, when religious fundamentalism is once again shaping world events.
"Teresa de Lauretis makes a bold and original argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2008011107-…
Warum Kritik?: Begründungsformen kritischer Theorien
Seit ihrer Entstehung ging es der kritischen Theorie in ihren unterschiedlichen Ausführungen stets darum, die bestehende Gesellschaft mit ihren normativen Ordnungen zu kritisieren. Dabei differenzierten sich die unterschiedlichen Formen der kritischen Theorie hinsichtlich versch…