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The Legend of Freud - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
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The Legend of Freud - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded Ed)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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"Psychoanalysis is dead " Again and again this obituary is
pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and
scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought
continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. "The Legend of
Freud" shows why psychoanalysis has remained "uncanny, " not just
for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners as
well--and why it continues to fascinate us. For psychoanalysis is
not just a theory of psychic conflict: it is a thought in conflict
with itself. Often violent, the conflicts of psychoanalysis are
most productive where they remain unresolved, thus producing a text
that must be "read: " deciphered, interpreted, rewritten.
Psychoanalysis: "legenda est."
"Review"
""The Legend of Freud" is a fine example of what can be done with
Freud's texts when philosophical and literary approaches converge,
and you leave the couch in the other room. . . . Like Lacan and
Derrida, Weber doesn't so much explain or interpret Freud as engage
him, performing what Freud would have called an
"Auseinandersetzung, " a discussion or argument that's also a
taking apart, a deconstruction. . . . Deconstruction has picked up
a bad name, especially in the minds of those who don't understand
it; but this wouldn't be the case if there were more books like
Weber's. "The Legend of Freud" is the best deconstructive work I've
seen lately, and the best response to Freud; it merits close
attention from anyone who wants a challenge, not merely a guide to
what's right and wrong. . . . Weber is brilliantly imaginative,
respectful of his subject and his readers, and productive of new
ideas."
--"Village Voice Literary Supplement"
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