Reading Freud : Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory

by Tony Thwaites

• ISBN13: 9780761952367
• ISBN10: 0761952365
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to that Freud and brings together for the first time: - an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to see quickly where, and in which texts, Freud develops his main ideas; - a guide to reading Freud, and to what can be done with the complexities of his texts; - an examination of what recent cultural theory draws from Freud, and of why psychoanalysis is of interest for it; - a reading and argument about the Freud revealed by recent cultural theory; - an extensive selection of extracts from Freud's texts, with commentary. This book is now the definitive guide to the content of Freud's texts: what's there and where to find it. It will have wide appeal to students new to Freud in cultural studies, literary theory, philosophy and sociology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Borders	p. 1
Spilling out	p. 2
Introductory writings and overviews
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1915-17) and New Introductory Lectures on Pychoanalysis (1932)	p. 6
The Question of Lay Analysis (1926)	p. 7
'On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement' (1914), 'A Short Account of Psychoanalysis' (1924) and 'An Autobiographical Study' (1925)	p. 7
'An Outline of Psychoanalysis' (1938)	p. 8
Unconscious	p. 9
The slip	p. 10
Early writings	p. 13
Freud-Fliess correspondence (1887-1904), 'Project for a Scientific Psychology' (1887-1907) on Breuer and Freud, Studies in Hysteria (1893-95)	p. 13
Unconscious and conscious	p. 15
The hypothesis	p. 15
Cathexis	p. 18
Displacement and condensation	p. 22
Repression	p. 23
Remains and the reality principle	p. 25
Opening the field	p. 29
The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)	p. 29
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) and Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905)	p. 31
Metapsychological papers	p. 32
'Instincts and Their Vicissitudes' (1915), 'Repression' (1915), 'The Unconscious' (1915), 'A Metapsychological Supplement to the Theory of Dreams (1917) and Mourning and Melancholia' (1917)	p. 32
Ego, id and superego	p. 34
Problems with the model	p. 34
The second topography	p. 36
A new topography	p. 43
The Ego and the Id (1923)	p. 43
The inhuman	p. 44
The human machine	p. 44
The inconstant subject	p. 47
The non-existent unconscious	p. 50
Sexuality	p. 59
Forgetting	p. 59
Sexuality	p. 62
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)	p. 62
Drive	p. 63
Drive, instinct and stimulus	p. 63
Aim and object	p. 66
Sexual drives and ego drives	p. 72
Libido and narcissism	p. 75
Eros and the death drive	p. 79
The death drive	p. 86
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)	p. 86
Development	p. 87
Beginnings	p. 87
Maternal body and paternal voice	p. 93
Empty difference	p. 95
Oedipus	p. 97
Castration	p. 99
Contingency	p. 103
Prohibition and impossibility	p. 106
Sexual difference	p. 109
'The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex' (1924), 'Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes' (1925) and 'Female Sexuality' (1931)	p. 109
Social	p. 112
Siren	p. 113
Foreign territory	p. 115
Myth	p. 118
Totem and Taboo (1912-13)	p. 118
Fantasies of the social	p. 119
Primal fantasy	p. 119
The primal horde	p. 120
Groups	p. 123
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1923)	p. 123
The social superego	p. 124
Disobey this edict	p. 124
The nature of the bond	p. 127
Civilization	p. 131
The Future of an Illusion (1927)	p. 131
Civilization and its Discontents (1930)	p. 132
Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays (1934-38)	p. 133
The opening of history	p. 135
Something does not follow	p. 135
Metasociology	p. 137
The empty core	p. 141
Ideology	p. 143
The case histories	p. 146
'Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria' ('Dora') (1901)	p. 146
'Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy' ('Little Hans') (1909)	p. 147
'Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis' ('Rat Man') (1909)	p. 148
'Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia aranoides)' ('Schreber') (1910)	p. 149
'From the History of an Infantile Neurosis' ('Wolf Man') (1914)	p. 151
'The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman' (1920)	p. 152
References	p. 157
Index	p. 163
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