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Mourning Freud (Paperback, HPOD)
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Mourning Freud (Paperback, HPOD)
Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons
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Mourning Freud analyses Freud's experiences and theories of
mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic
theories and practices over the course of the 20th century. The
modernist Freud of the early 20th century has ceded to the
postmodern Freud of the 21st. Madelon Sprengnether examines this
phenomenon from the perspective of Freud's self-analysis in
relation to his generation of theory, the challenges and
transformations wrought by feminism, cultural studies and
postmodernism, and the speculations of contemporary neuroscience
concerning the unreliability of memory. She offers a significant
interpretation of major biographical episodes in Freud's life,
arguing that Freud's inability to mourn the losses of his early
life shaped his theories of mourning, which in turn opened the
field of pre-oedipal studies to his successors, enabling a host of
new psychoanalytic theories such as object relations,
intersubjective and countertransference theories, Lacanian
analysis, and trauma theory. Many of these approaches converge on
the formulation of mourning as critical to the process of ego
development. Through this argument, Sprengnether traces the shift
from modernism to postmodernism-from an emphasis on mastery to
vulnerability, from vertical to horizontal systems of
meaning-making, and from what is representable in words to the
realm of the nonverbal. Mourning Freud, by exploring Freud's own
struggles with mourning, allows us, in turn, to mourn him-releasing
him from frozen idealization while demonstrating the relevance of
his work to the 21st century.
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