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Book Freud s Drive  Psychoanalysis  Literature and Film

Download or read book Freud s Drive Psychoanalysis Literature and Film written by Teresa De Lauretis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal 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.

Book Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive

Download or read book Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive written by Rossella Valdrè and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive is a highly accessible book that investigates the relevance, complexity and originality of a hugely controversial Freudian concept which, the author argues, continues to exert enormous influence on modernity and plays an often-imperceptible role in the violence and so-called "sad passions" of contemporary society. With examples from cinema, literature and the consulting room, the book’s four chapters – theory, the clinic, art and contemporaneity – investigate every angle, usually little explored, of the death drive: its "positive" functions, such as its contribution to subjectification; its ambiguous relationship with sublimation; the clues it provides about transgenerational matters; and its effects on the feminine. This is not a book about aggression, a type of extroflection of the death drive made visible, studied and striking; rather, it is about the derivatives of the pulsion that changes in the clinic, in life, in society, in artistic forms. With bold and innovative concepts and by making connections to film and books, Rossella Valdrè unequivocally argues that the contemporary clinic is a clinic of the death drive. Psychoanalytic Reflections on The Freudian Death Drive seeks to relaunch the debate on a controversial and neglected concept and will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Today’s renewed interest in the Freudian death drive attests to its extraordinary ability to explain both "new" pathologies and socio-economic phenomena.

Book The Ends of Mourning

Download or read book The Ends of Mourning written by Alessia Ricciardi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ends of Mourning explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the contemporary crisis of mourning. In an age skeptical of history and memory, we relate to the past only as a spectacle, a product to be consumed in the cultural marketplace. The book charts the emergence and development of the problem of mourning in the writings of Freud, Proust, and Freud's successor Lacan. Freud's idea of "sorrow work" and Proust's concept of involuntary memory defined the terms of the classic modernist account of mourning in the fields of psychoanalysis and literature. Yet their insistence on the egotistical aspects of loss to the exclusion of all ethical and political considerations threatens the dissolution of the question of mourning.

Book Freud  Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Freud Dictionary of Psychoanalysis written by Nandor Fodor and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that should satisfy a longfelt need. Freud’s writings comprise a small library. To know how the founder of psychoanalysis defined his original terms, how he changed or amplified them in his later writings; to have his exact statements at hand on all possible psychoanalytic questions will be of considerable assistance to students and practitioners alike. Some analysts, known as specialists in Freudian quotations, have been receiving constant requests to supply references to those who sorely needed them. This book will safeguard them from the penalty of specialization, and will place all Freudiana within easy reach of professional and non-professional researchers.

Book Freudian Passions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Campbell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0429914016
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Freudian Passions written by Jan Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freud's thinking about the unconscious has always been seen to be more about representations than affects. When it came to the passions of the transference and the demands of his hysterical patients, Freud was always more interested, wanted to move the focus away from the transference, and onto dreams. Hidden wishes more than manifest ones were what captured his imagination and style. This book returns to the repressed theory of passions in Freud's own thinking, arguing that the repression, fixation and rhythmic movement of affects make up the roots and branches of psychoanalytic thinking. We can think of Freud's unconscious affects as a tree, with the most passionate and primitive affects that make up the core of our psychic life, moving and branching out into more elaborated emotions and representations. So what moves this tree: the house of our first passions? How we move the tree of our affects, or leave it, is integral to Freud's understanding of sexuality and the Oedipal Complex.

Book From the Couch to the Lab

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aikaterini Fotopoulou
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-17
  • ISBN : 019960052X
  • Pages : 507 pages

Download or read book From the Couch to the Lab written by Aikaterini Fotopoulou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the psychodynamics of the mind be correlated with neurodynamic processes in the brain? The book revisits a question that scientists and psychoanalysts have been asking for more than a century. It brings together experts from Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neurology to consider this question.

Book A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Download or read book A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor written by Matthew Hodge and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this collection examine issues of creativity, gender, sexuality, and adaptation by focusing on themes from Julie Taymor's oeuvre including martyrdom, musicality, fidelity, postmodern representations, feminism and queerness, identity, desire, trauma, revenge, hybridity, and obscenity.

Book An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book An Outline of Psychoanalysis written by Sigmund Freud and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Started in 1938 and published a year after his death in 1940, Freud’s An Outline of Psychoanalysis provides a clear yet comprehensive overview of psychoanalytical theory. Written in a way that makes it accessible for all, this book is perfect for gaining a basic understanding of psychoanalysis and deserves a place on the bookshelf of both serious practitioners and armature enthusiasts of psychology alike. The text analyses the ego, the id, drives, the destruction impulse, and the the inter-connectivity thereof. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the father of psychoanalysis and whose seminal work constitutes the foundation of modern psychoanalytical theory to this day. This book is republished with an additional biography of the author.

Book The Dreams of Interpretation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Liu
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 145291320X
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book The Dreams of Interpretation written by Catherine Liu and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the importance of Sigmund Freud’s landmark book The Interpretation of Dreams a century after its publication in 1900, this work brings together psychoanalysts, philosophers, cultural theorists, film and visual theorists, and literary critics from several continents in a compilation of the best clinical and theoretical work being done in psychoanalysis today. It is unique in convening both theory and practice in productive dialogue, reflecting on the encounter between psychoanalysis and the tradition of hermeneutics. Collectively the essays argue that Freud’s legacy has shaped the way we think about not only psychology and the nature of the self but also our understanding of politics, culture, and even thought itself. Contributors: Willy Apollon, Gifric; Karyn Ball, U of Alberta, Edmonton; Raymond Bellour, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Patricia Gherovici, Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar; Judith Feher-Gurewich, New York U; Jonathan Kahana, New York U; A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College; Pablo Kovalovsky, Clinica de Borde; Jean Laplanche, U of Lausanne; Laura Marcus, U of Sussex; Andrew McNamara, Queensland U of Technology; Claire Nahon; Yun Peng, U of Minnesota; Gerard Pommier, Nantes U; Jean-Michel Rabat, Princeton U; Laurence A. Rickels, U of California, Santa Barbara; Avital Ronell, New York U; Elke Siegel, Yale U; Rei Terada, U of California, Irvine; Klaus Theweleit, U of Freiburg-im-Breisgau; Paul Verhaege, U of Ghent, Belgium; Silke-Maria Weineck, U of Michigan. Catherine Liu is associate professor of comparative literature and film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. John Mowitt is professor and chair of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Thomas Pepper is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Jakki Spicer received her Ph.D. in cultural studies and comparative literature from the University of Minnesota.

Book Deviant Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sigmund Freud
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2007-08-02
  • ISBN : 0141964022
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Deviant Love written by Sigmund Freud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, remade our view of the human mind by exploring the unconscious forces that drive us. This collection of his groundbreaking writings on the psychology of love examines the nature of desire, transgression, fantasy and erotic taboo. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be transported to different places and introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and varied forms: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

Book Freud and Beyond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2016-05-10
  • ISBN : 0465098827
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Freud and Beyond written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation since Freud's death in 1939. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make the full scope of twentieth century psychoanalytic thinking—from Harry Stack Sullivan to Jacques Lacan; D.W. Winnicott to Melanie Klein—available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at last.

Book Lacan and the Concept of the  Real

Download or read book Lacan and the Concept of the Real written by T. Eyers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times.

Book Sigmund Freud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Thurschwell
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0415473683
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Sigmund Freud written by Pamela Thurschwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers students an introduction to Freud's importance for psychoanalytic literary criticism, while tracing the scientific and cultural contexts from which he emerged. The book covers Freud's terminology and key ideas.

Book Studying Sexualities

Download or read book Studying Sexualities written by Niall Richardson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities. But how do we study it? Written in a lively and accessible style, Studying Sexualities aims to introduce students to the critical study of sexuality, taking a look at the major theories, media representations, and cultural practices. After having carefully explained the key theoretical and empirical debates on the subject – outlining Foucauldian Constructionism, Psychoanalysis, and Queer Theory - the authors draw on their own original research to address timely topics related to gender, sexuality, and popular culture. Contemporary examples used within the book include discussions of sex shops, cybersex, and sex toys, the TV series Sex and the City, Will and Grace and The L Word, and the immensely popular Twilight books. Studying Sexualities is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on Cultural, Media, Film, or visual Studies, or Sociology and Sexuality courses, who are interested in researching the fascinating complexities of sexuality today. NIALL RICHARDSON is a lecturer at the University of Sussex, and CLARISSA SMITH and ANGELA WERNDLY are lecturers at the University of Sunderland, UK. This book is the culmination of their considerable teaching and writing experience within the field of sexualities. Their specific research interests include feminism and popular culture, queer theory, the body and consumption.

Book Horror Film and Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Horror Film and Psychoanalysis written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises. Nevertheless, when used to shed light on horror cinema, psychoanalysis in its various forms has proven to be a fruitful and provocative interpretative tool. This volume seeks to find the proper place of psychoanalytic thought in critical discussion of cinema in a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility and validity as applied to the horror genre. It distinguishes itself from previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and the theorization that coexists with interpretations of particular horror films and subgenres.

Book Freud Lynch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefan Marianski
  • Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
  • Release : 2022-09-29
  • ISBN : 1800130651
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Freud Lynch written by Stefan Marianski and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The films of David Lynch are sometimes said to be unintelligible. They confront us with strange dreamscapes populated with bizarre characters, obscure symbols and an infuriating lack of narrative consistency. Yet despite their opacity, they hold us transfixed. Lynch, who once told an interviewer, "I love dream logic," would surely agree with Sigmund Freud's famous claim that "before the problem of the creative artist, psychoanalysis must lay down its arms." But what else might the two agree on? Rather than presuming to fill in what Lynch leaves open by positing some forbidden psychosexual reality lurking behind his trademark red curtains, this book instead maintains a fidelity to the mysteries of his wonderful and strange filmic worlds, finding in them productive spaces where thought and imagination can be set to work. With contributions from scholars, psychoanalysts, cinephiles, and filmmakers, this collection of essays explores potential affinities and disjunctions between Lynch and Freud. Encompassing themes such as art, identity, architecture, fantasy, dreams, hysteria and the unconscious, Freud/Lynch takes as its point of departure the possibility that the enterprise in which these two distinct investigators are engaged might in some sense be a shared one.

Book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud

Download or read book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud written by Sigmund Freud and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥♥ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud ♥♥ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis is a set of lectures given by Sigmund Freud 1915-17 (published 1916-17), which became the most popular and widely translated of his works. ♥♥ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud ♥♥ The 28 lectures offered an elementary stock-taking of his views of the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of neuroses at the time of writing, as well as offering some new technical material to the more advanced reader. ♥♥ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud ♥♥ The lectures became the most popular and widely translated of his works. However, some of the positions outlined in Introduction to Psychoanalysis would subsequently be altered or revised in Freud's later work; and in 1932 he offered a second set of seven lectures numbered from 29–35—New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis—as complement (though these were never read aloud and featured a different, sometimes more polemical style of presentation). ♥♥ A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis BY Sigmund Freud ♥♥