Tales from the Freudian Crypt
Subtitle: The Death Drive in Text and Context
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780804738859
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; 20th century; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis; Freud, Sigmund,; 1856-1939; Death instinct; Psychoanalysis
First sentence: In keeping with an apocalyptic tone appropriate for the fin de siecle, and no doubt exaggerated by the close of the millennium, it has become fashionable in many quarters to announce the failure or bankruptcy of psychoanalysis, if not its immanent death.