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Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

Berman, Jeffrey

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1350471836
ISBN13: 9781350471832
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 19 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel.

The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold Bloom, Kurt R. Eissler, and Peter Gay. Berman then explores four more writers whose aim was not simply to debunk Freud and destroy his monstrous creation but to cast both into hell: D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Szasz, and Frederick Crews. Each chapter discusses the author's involvement with Freud, exploring the continuities and discontinuities of his or her writings, as well as offering snapshots of the writers, suggesting how their personal and professional lives were inextricably related.

Berman draws out some surprising commonalities between the Freudolaters and Schadenfreudians, going on to discuss the current state of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic credos by which contemporary analysts live.

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