Author: Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: thinkers, critical, routledge, freud, sigmund
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-11-07
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 041521520X
ISBN-13: 9780415215206
Routledge Critical Thinkers is a new series for anyone needing an acessible introduction to the key figures in contemporary critical thought. The books provide crucial orientation for further study and equip readers to engage with each theorist’s original texts. In Sigmund Freud, his key ideas are discussed as well as the intellectual, social and historical contexts in which they were first presented. The book answers the questions: Why is Freud important? What motivated and influenced him? And who did Freud influence? Sigmund Freud is a comprehensive and important introduction to a co
Author: Paul C. Vitz
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Keywords: unconscious, christian, freud, sigmund
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1993-02
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802806902
ISBN-13: 9780802806901
Making extensive use of Freud’s correspondence and writings, Vitz discusses Freud’s early childhood in Moravia (especially his relationship with his Catholic nanny), his rejection of his father, his university years, his extended visits to Rome, his involvement with cocaine, his peculiar preoccupation with the holiday of Pentecost, and more. Photographs.
Author: Pamela Thurschwell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: thinkers, critical, routledge, freud, sigmund
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-06-09
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0415473683
ISBN-13: 9780415473682
The work of Sigmund Freud has penetrated almost every area of literary theory and cultural studies, as well as contemporary culture. Pamela Thurschwell explains and contextualises psychoanalytic theory and its meaning for modern thinking. This updated second edition explores developments and responses to Freud’s work, including: tracing contexts and developments of Freud’s work over the course of his career exploring paradoxes and contradictions in his writing focusing on psychoanalysis as an interpretative strategy, paying special attention to its impact on literary and cultural
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: BoD
Keywords: german, illusion, einer, zukunft
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 383914552X
ISBN-13: 9783839145524
In "Zukunft einer Illusion" übt Freud radikale Relgionskritik. Selbst viele Atheisten meinen, dass es zwar Gott nicht gibt, aber der Glaube an ihn eine nützliche Funktion für die Gesellschaft hat. Freud widerspricht auch hier: "Diese rationelle Begründung des Verbots zu morden teilen wir aber nicht mit, sondern wir behaupten, Gott habe das Verbot erlassen. Indem wir so verfahren, umkleiden wir das Kulturverbot mit einer ganz besonderen Feierlichkeit, riskieren aber dabei, daß wir dessen Befolgung von dem Glauben an Gott abhängig machen. Wenn wir diesen Schritt zurücknehmen, unseren W
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, taboo, totem
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-06-19
List price: $2.50
ISBN-10: 048640434X
ISBN-13: 9780486404349
This landmark collection of essays by the father of psychoanalysis explores the conflict between primitive feelings and the demands of civilization. Freud identifies a strong unconscious inclination as the basis of taboo, a forbidden behavior, and traces its earliest appearance to the childhood development of totemism.
Authors:Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay, James Strachey, Pet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: discontents, civilization
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1989-09-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0393301583
ISBN-13: 9780393301588
During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mindâ??the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros. Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud’s books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it
Authors:Josef Hofbauer, Karl Sigmund,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: dynamics, population, games, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-06-13
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 052162570X
ISBN-13: 9780521625708
Every form of behavior is shaped by trial and error. Such stepwise adaptation can occur through individual learning or through natural selection, the basis of evolution. Since the work of Maynard Smith and others, it has been realized how game theory can model this process. Evolutionary game theory replaces the static solutions of classical game theory by a dynamical approach centered not on the concept of rational players but on the population dynamics of behavioral programs. In this book the authors investigate the nonlinear dynamics of the self-regulation of social and economic behavior, a
