Is Oedipus Online?: Siting Freud After Freud

by Jerry Aline Flieger

Book Overview

Psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century. "Can Freud be 'updated' in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks Jerry Aline Flieger. In Is Oedipus Online? Flieger stages an encounter between psychoanalysis and the new century, testing the viability of Freud's theories in light of the emergent realities of our time. Responding to prominent critics of psychoanalysis and approaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262562073
• ISBN13: 9780262562072
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Fascinating trip through Freud, fractals, and 21st century culture

This book makes an excellent case for the pertinence of Freud to the new models of culture and knowledge in the new millennium. The scientific descriptions are clear and lively, appropriate for non-scientists, and the first part will be of help to anyone in cultural studies, women's studies, or "theory' in the university. The writing is clear and lively.