Description
| Product ID: | 9781501370021 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Psychoanalytic Horizons |
| Title: | Our Two-Track Minds |
| Subtitle: | Rehabilitating Freud on Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Professor or Dr. Robert A. Paul |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating While many of Freud’s original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies. Robert A. Paul shows that Freud's ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory. While many of Freud’s original formulations have required either revision or rejection and replacement with newer models, his cultural books, such as Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo, though extremely influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies. Robert A. Paul shows that Freud''s ideas in these books, and his thinking on how human society is possible, given the unpromising materials out of which it is constructed (i.e. human beings), can appear in a different and more favorable light when viewed through the lens of contemporary anthropology, cultural studies, and evolutionary theory. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic USA |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-14 |
