(Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience

by Robert Samuels

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood--even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031133269
• ISBN13: 9783031133268
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"