Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture

by Peter Brooks

Book Overview

One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture--and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis is very much at issue. Is it still valid as a theory of the mind? Have its therapeutic applications been rendered obsolete by drugs?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300087454
• ISBN13: 9780300087451
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"