How to read Freud
By: Josh Cohen.
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund, -- 1856-1939; Psychoanalysis; Psychology
Other titles: Freud.
Description: "In this introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis." "By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: that our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes, symptoms, in short, our everyday lives, reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognizable to ourselves as to others."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-131) and index.