The Unconscious

by Easthope; Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780415192088
• ISBN10: 0415192080
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with a startling variety of examples. He takes us on a vivid guided tour of this troubling topic via jokes, rugby songs, Hamlet, Hitchcock's Psycho, and the life and death of Princess Di.Aimed at the absolute beginner, The Unconscious is an enjoyable and easy-to-read introduction for the student and general reader.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	xi
Preface	xiii
Is there an unconscious?	1	(23)
Inner speech and the unconscious	4	(1)
Instinct and drive	5	(2)
Hypnosis	7	(2)
Dreams	9	(4)
Slips and mistakes in everyday life	13	(2)
Jokes	15	(3)
Art	18	(2)
Case histories	20	(4)
The unconscious in Freud and Lacan	24	(23)
The unconscious and childhood	25	(3)
Oedipus	28	(2)
Castration	30	(1)
Repression	31	(2)
Law, language and society	33	(3)
Freud and the unconscious	36	(4)
Lacan and the unconscious	40	(4)
Some qualifications	44	(3)
The unconscious and the `I'	47	(23)
The ego	48	(7)
The Ego and the Id (1923)	55	(3)
Lacan's ego	58	(8)
Being in love	66	(4)
The unconscious and sexuality	70	(39)
Oral and anal	72	(2)
Oral, anal -- and genital	74	(2)
Masculinity	76	(3)
Femininity	79	(5)
Sexuality deflected	84	(3)
Homosexuality	87	(2)
Lacan: either being or meaning	89	(3)
Need, demand, desire	92	(5)
Sexuality in Lacan	97	(12)
The unconscious and the text	109	(26)
Fantasy	110	(1)
Dr No	111	(1)
The pleasures of the signifier	112	(3)
Author: Leonardo da Vinci	115	(2)
Content of the fantasy	117	(2)
Formal features	119	(5)
Art and the reader	124	(1)
Fantasy in Freud and Lacan	125	(2)
Multiple identifications: being beaten	127	(2)
Fantasy and pleasure in the text	129	(1)
Psycho	130	(5)
The unconscious and history	135	(30)
Universal human nature?	135	(2)
Freud and history	137	(4)
Freud and Leninism	141	(1)
Possible reconciliations	142	(8)
Lacan and history	150	(2)
Psychoanalysis relative to history	152	(1)
Lacan and vision	153	(1)
The unconscious in groups and events	154	(8)
Happiness and human nature	162	(1)
Lacan and aggression	163	(2)
Conclusion: giving it all away	165	(7)
Bibliography	172	(6)
Index	178