{"product_id":"the-legend-of-freud-9780804731201","title":"The Legend of Freud","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis is dead! Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to haunt those who would seal the grave. \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e shows why psychoanalysis has remained \u003ci\u003euncanny,\u003c\/i\u003e not just for its enemies but for its advocates and practitioners as welland why it continues to fascinate us. For psychoanalysis is not just a theory of psychic conflict: it is a thought in conflict with itself. Often violent, the conflicts of psychoanalysis are most productive where they remain unresolved, thus producing a text that must be \u003ci\u003eread:\u003c\/i\u003e deciphered, interpreted, rewritten. Psychoanalysis: \u003ci\u003elegenda est.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine example of what can be done with Freud''s texts when philosophical and literary approaches converge, and you leave the couch in the other room. . . . Like Lacan and Derrida, Weber doesn''t \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Freud\u003c\/i\u003e is a fine example of what can be done with Freud's texts when philosophical and literary approaches converge, and you leave the couch in the other room. . . . Weber is brilliantly imaginative, respectful of his subject and his readers, and productive of new ideas.\" -- \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  \t  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\tPart 1.  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\tPart 2.  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t\t  \t\t\t  \t\t  \t  \t  \t\tPart 3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405516546391,"sku":"9780804731201","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804731201.jpg?v=1730492485","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-legend-of-freud-9780804731201","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}