This provocative book brings together an exceptional group of contributors—partisans and critics of Freud—in vigorous debate over the meaning of psychoanalysis today. Representing such diverse fields as literature, philosophy, film, history, cultural studies, neuroscience, and psychotherapy, the writers offer a new assessment of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture.
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
July 11, 2000
ISBN
0300087454
ISBN 13
9780300087451
Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
This provocative book brings together an exceptional group of contributors—partisans and critics of Freud—in vigorous debate over the meaning of psychoanalysis today. Representing such diverse fields as literature, philosophy, film, history, cultural studies, neuroscience, and psychotherapy, the writers offer a new assessment of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture.