Reading Freud : Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory
/Tony Thwaites
- 1st
- London, SAGE Publications, 2007
- xiv, 170 pages 23 cm.
Includes index
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