How To Read Freud

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title How To Read Freud
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Josh Cohen
SeriesHow to Read
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
ISBN/Barcode 9781862077638
ClassificationsDewey:150.1952
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 7 February 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that makes psychoanalysis so many oponents. By reading - closely - short extracts from across Freud's work addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex. How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic thinking: our innermost truths only ever manifest themselves as distortions. Read attentively, our dreams, errors, jokes, symptoms, in short, our everyday lives, reveal us as masters of disguise, as unrecognisable at first to ourselves as to others.

Author Biography

Josh Cohen is Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths University of London and the author of Spectacular Allegories and Interrupting Auschwitz.