What Freud really meant : a chronological reconstruction of his theory of the mind
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What Freud really meant : a chronological reconstruction of his theory of the mind
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Through an exacting yet accessible reconstruction of eleven of Freud's essential theoretical writings, Susan Sugarman demonstrates that the traditionally received Freud is the diametric opposite of the one evident in the pages of his own works. Whereas Freud's theory of the mind is typically conceived as a catalogue of uninflected concepts and crude reductionism - for instance that we are nothing but our infantile origins or sexual and aggressive instincts - it emerges here as an organic whole built from first principles and developing in sophistication over time. Sugarman's exciting interpretation, tracking Freud's texts in the order in which he wrote them, grounds his claims in the reasoning that led to them and reveals their real intent. This fresh reading will appeal to specialists and students across a variety of disciplines.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Freud on psychoanalysis: 'Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis' (1909a)
- 2. The pleasure and reality principles: 'Formulations Regarding Two Principles in Mental Functioning' (1911)
- 'The Psychology of the Dream-Processes' from The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
- 3. Ambivalence and the origin of the civilized mind: 'Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence' from Totem and Taboo (1913b)
- 4. Narcissism as stage in development: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914)
- 5. The impetus to the mind: 'Instincts and Their Vicissitudes' (1915a)
- 6. The possibility of repression: 'Repression' (1915b)
- 'Negation' (1925a)
- 7. The unconscious and the structure of the mind: 'The Unconscious' (1915c)
- 8. Beyond the pleasure principle: 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' (1920)
- 9. A new architecture of the mind: 'The Ego and the Id' (1923)
- 10. Pleasure revised: 'An Economic Problem in Masochism' (1924)
- 11. Civilization, morality, and the pursuit of pleasure: 'Civilization and its Discontents' (1930)
- Epilogue: what Freud really meant.
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