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Author Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Title Shopping with Freud / Rachel Bowlby
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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 MELB  658.8342 Bow/Swf  AVAILABLE
Description 134 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Promoting Dorian Gray -- 3. 'But she could have been reading Lady Chatterley': The obscene side of the canon -- 4. Lolita and the poetry of advertising -- 5. A happy event: The births of psychoanalysis -- 6. Frankenstein's woman-to-be: Choice and the new reproductive technologies -- 7. Make up your mind: Scenes from the psychology of selling and shopping
Summary "Looks at the diverse and unexpectedly overlapping ideas of choice and consumer choice deployed in consumer psychology and psychoanalysis, in arguments about the new reproductive technologies, and in arguments about literature and sexuality"--Prelim
Analysis Consumer behaviour
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [120]-131) and index
Subject Advertising -- Psychological aspects.
Consumer behavior.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Human reproductive technology -- Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis.
LC no. 92037663
ISBN 0415060060 (acid-free paper)
0415060079 (paperback: acid-free paper)