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Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2021
ISBN
1501370030, 9781501370038
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1115261 bytes)
Series
Psychoanalytic Horizons
Pages
232\220
Time added
2022-03-20 18:42:34

Description

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influential in the early part of the 20th century, have more recently been either neglected or else dismissed as long-outdated fantasies.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.

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