Shopping with Freud

by Rachel Bowlby

What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing psychology to psychoanalysis.
Rachel Bowlby shows how ideas about consumption are brought to bear on contemporary conceptions of choice in areas that seem far removed from a straightforward matter of shopping. She also shows that arguments and assumptions about the psychology of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415060079
• ISBN13: 9780415060073
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"