Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire: Hearts of Darkness

by John Desmond

Book Overview

Provides an accessible introduction to psychoanalytic explanations of consumer desire. Topics are drawn widely to reflect the scope of Freud's vision and include dreams, sexuality and hysteria. Discussion is widened to selectively include authors such as Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, and to include evaluation of current research.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230252192
• ISBN13: 9780230252196
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"