Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

By Joel Whitebook

In this challenge to the postmodern critiques of psychoanalysis, Joel Whitebook argues for a reintegration of Freud's uncompromising investigation of the unconscious with the political and philosophical insights of critical theory. This work follows in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilisation and Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy. It expands on these books however, because of the author's grasp not only of psychoanalytic studies, but also of the contemporary critical climate. Joel Whitebook, a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, writes with equal facility on both Habermas and Freud.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262231786
• ISBN13: 9780262231787
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"