Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality

by Jerome C. Wakefield

In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault.

Starting from Foucault's question, "What makes the psychoanalytic theory of incest acceptable to the bourgeois family?", and drawing on Foucault's relatively unexplored published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032769254
• ISBN13: 9781032769257
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages