Freud Revisited: Psychoanalytic Themes in the Postmodern Age

By Roger Horrocks

Book Overview

Freud Revisited sees Freud as one of the last great exponents of Enlightenment rationalism; yet he also forms part of modernism - which shattered traditional forms in art - and he leads forward to certain postmodern ideas. The book examines some of Freud's themes which remain challenging and relevant today - for example, psychoanalysis as a form of narrative-construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge gained through psychotherapy, and the unconscious, which subverts any notion of stable human identity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349410748
• ISBN13: 9781349410743
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"