Freud: Conflict and Culture: Essays on his life, work, and legacy

By: Michael Roth

Book Overview

In Freud- Conflict and Culture , Michael S. Roth presents eithgteen essays on the man who has become, in W.H. Auden's phrase, "a whole climate of opinion." This fascinating collections explores... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679451161
• ISBN13: 9780679451167
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Plenty of Multiplicity

The Art Spiegelman contribution to this book is in comic book form, pp. 165-8. In tips on telling jokes, a current obsession with people who would like to be popular, but a plague for those people who think that they already are popular, Art illustrates a joke: "This guy think's he's a mirror so he goes to see a shrink." I'm not going to tell you the results. That would be too much like trying to read Mad magazine to my mother while she was ironing. Mark Twain was the guy who could be funnier, if Art quoted him right. "Everything human is pathetic." (p. 168)