While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies.
Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory.
| ISBN: | 9781501370021 |
| Publication date: | 14th January 2021 |
| Author: | Robert A Paul |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Literary theory |
While many of Freud's original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies.
Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory.
Our Two-Track Minds features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory
Our Two-Track Minds is available in Paperback, Hardback
Our Two-Track Minds was written by Robert A Paul and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Our Two-Track Minds has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Psychoanalytic Horizons series
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