Synopses & Reviews
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its<br/>greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, the book ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria<br/>of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and<br/>French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a<br/>masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis<br/>and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of<br/>Freud.<br/>"Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar." —The Independent, U.K.<br/>"A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable<br/>and truly original scholarship with great wit." —Ikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and<br/>Remembering Anna O>
Synopsis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its<br/>greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, the book ranges across the strange case of Anna O, the hysteria<br/>of Josef Breuer, the love of dogs, the Freud industry, the role of gossip and fiction, bad manners, pop psychology and<br/>French philosophy, figure skating on thin ice, and contemporary therapy culture. A map to the Freudian minefield and a<br/>masterful negotiation of high theory and low culture, Killing Freud is a witty and fearless revaluation of psychoanalysis<br/>and its real place in 20th century history. It will appeal to anyone curious about the life of the mind after the death of<br/>Freud.<br/>"Its erudition offers sure-fire caviar." —The Independent, U.K.<br/>"A flamboyant and hilarious satire of one of our most revered cultural institutions, Killing Freud combines impeccable<br/>and truly original scholarship with great wit." —Ikkel Borch-Jacobsen, author of The Freudian Subject and<br/>Remembering Anna O>
Table of Contents
Introduction The Deaths of Sigmund FreudA Note on Bad MannersPart I: Suggestion and Fraud in the Age of Critical Freud Studies1. The Strange Case of "Anna O.": An Overview of the 'Revisionist' Assessment2. Rhetoric, Representation, and the Hysterical Josef Breuer3. Critical Readers of Freud Unite: A New Era for Freud StudiesPart II. Selected Memories of Psychoanalysis: History, Theory, Politics4. Freud and His Followers, Or How Psychoanalysis Brings Out the Worst in Everyone5. Gossip, Fiction, and the History of the History of Psychoanalysis: An Open Letter6. Jacques What's-His-Name: Death, Memory, and Archival Sickness7. The Politics of Representing Freud: A Short Account of a Media War, 8. This Time With Feeling9. Funny Business: The Cartoon Seminar of Jacques Lacan10. Going to the Dogs, Or My Life as a Psychoanalyst, By David BeddowPart III: Analysts at Play, Working11. Psychoanalysis On Thin Ice: Jones and Figure Skating12. Psychoanalysis, Doggie StylePart IV: Last Words13. Psychoanalysis, Parasites, and the "Culture of Banality"14. The Futures of PsychoanalysisNotesIndex