Freud on the psychology of ordinary mental life
By: Susan Sugarman.
Publisher: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442204034; 9781442204058
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939; Psychoanalysis; Pleasure principle; Loss (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the inquiry; title: The pleasure principle; title: Meaning and determinism and the search for anomalies; title: Conscious and unconscious, repression, and development; title: Developmental analysis as investigatory tool studies; title: Getting lost in someone else's story; title: Creative witers and daydreaming; title: Why we laugh at something funny; title: Jokes and their relation to the unconscious; title: The experience of the uncanny; title: The paradox of surprise in the face of certainty; title: A disturbance of memory on the acropolis; title: What makes choice difficult when it is : a Freud-inspired excursion; title: Mourning and mental health.