Freudian Repression
Subtitle: Conversation Creating the Unconscious
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521650526
Subjects: Child abuse; Social, group or collective psychology; The self, ego, identity, personality; Psychology; Freud, Sigmund; Repression (Psychology); Movements - Psychoanalysis; Personality; Psychology & Psychiatry / History; Freud, Sigmund,; 1856-1939; Psychoanalysis
First sentence: Freud, as is well known, produced a multi-layered view of the human mind.
Description: Reinterpreting some of Freud's classic case histories, Billig shows how language is both expressive and repressive and sheds new light on the question of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse and the ideology of psychoanalysis. This original book will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience.