The Lure of Dreams: Sigmund Freud and the Construction of Modernity

by Harvie Ferguson

Book Overview

From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. In The Lure of Dreams, Harvie Ferguson shows how Freud's writings and particulary The Interpretation of Dreams contribute, both in their content and in the baroque and dream-like forms in which they are cast, to our understanding of the character of modernity.
This novel and stimulating approach to Freud and to the dilemmas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415048362
• ISBN13: 9780415048361
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"