How To Read Freud

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781862077638
Published: February 2005

Number of pages: 128
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Publisher: Granta Books