| Description |
xvi, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen -- 1. Twilight of the Idols: From Freud to Lacan. The Freudian Currency. Beyond the "French Freud" - in America. A Continental Breakfast at L'Hotel Abyss -- 2. The Heterogeneous Beyond: An Introduction to the Dead and Dying. In Media Res: Given, Taken, Denied, and Forgotten 'Beyond's. Biographical 'Beyond's. Biological 'Beyond's. Klein and the "Clinical" 'Beyond'. Philosophical 'Beyond's. Derrida and the Deconstructive 'Beyond' -- 3. The Other Beyond: a.k.a. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Becoming Dead. The Hypnotic 'Beyond' -- Afterword: How to Be a Freudian; or, The Economics of Not Thinking |
| Summary |
"Tales from the Freudian Crypt is a fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies. Writing from the perspective of intellectual history, the author traces the impact that Freud's essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle has had, and continues to have, on twentieth-century thought. Designed as both an introduction and a corrective to the vast literature on Freud, the book explores the trail left by Freud's late theory of the death drive, paying special attention to its ramifications in the fields of biography, biology, psychotherapy, philosophy, and literary theory. The author ironically concludes that if there were such a thing as a death drive, it would look like this seemingly endless and in many ways arbitrary proliferation of the literature on Freud."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-222) and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Death instinct.
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Psychoanalysis.
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| LC no. |
99039776 |
| ISBN |
0804738858 paperback |
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0804734917 cased |
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