The Late Sigmund Freud
Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
By Todd Dufresne | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
About the book
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier more fundamental discoveries of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact the cultural Freud is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud as brilliant as ever was actually revealing the true meaning of his life s work. And so while The Future of an Illusion Civilization and its Discontents and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively balanced and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.
Editions of The Late Sigmund Freud
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107178724
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781316631027
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Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier more fundamental discoveries of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact the cultural Freud is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud as brilliant as ever was actually revealing the true meaning of his life s work. And so while The Future of an Illusion Civilization and its Discontents and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively balanced and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.
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Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society The Future of an Illusion and Civilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier more fundamental discoveries of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact the cultural Freud is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud as brilliant as ever was actually revealing the true meaning of his life s work. And so while The Future of an Illusion Civilization and its Discontents and his final work Moses and Monotheism may be embarrassing to some they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively balanced and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.
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Society and Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints > Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Late Sigmund Freud?
Todd Dufresne
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The Late Sigmund Freud is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107178724) and paperback(ISBN 9781316631027)