Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis

by Dianne F. Sadoff

Book Overview

"Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century," Freud said late in his career, "but it did not drop from the skies ready-made." And in his speculative theories of modernism, Bruno Latour argued that "no science can exit from the network of its practice." Deploying Latour's model of scientific theory production, this book argues that the historical emergence of psychoanalysis depended on nineteenth-century scientific practices:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804735085
• ISBN13: 9780804735087
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher