Freud's theories have always been the subject of intense debate: this volume beings together some of the major contributions to that debate in a courageous attempt to 'check up on Freud'. This critical survey of Freud's work on genetics, psychosexual development, defence mechanisms, such as projection, fixation, displacement and identification, and the unconscious, offers the reader a particularly lively set of Readings.
Freud's theories have always been the subject of intense debate: this volume beings together some of the major contributions to that debate in a courageous attempt to 'check up on Freud'. This critical survey of Freud's work on genetics, psychosexual development, defence mechanisms, such as projection, fixation, displacement and identification, and the unconscious, offers the reader a particularly lively set of Readings.