Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context
“Here is a brilliant, wide-ranging, exuberant book by a young scholar who knows the literature surrounding psychoanalysis as thoroughly, and as cannily, as anyone alive. Nowhere has the deep strangeness of Freud’s mind and tradition been more tellingly explored. It is a marvelous contribution not only to Freud studies but to modern intellectual history as well.”—Frederick Crews, University of California, Berkeley\ “An excellent text. Psychoanalysis in Dufresne's hands reads like a comic book...
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A fundamental reassessment of the Freud legend that aims to shake the very foundations of Freud studies. Booknews Invoking Freud's theory of the life and death instincts as explicated in (1920), the author argues that the death wish was Freud's own defense mechanism against criticism; critiques what he views as the death-obsessed commentators on Freudian psychoanalysis; and claims that the death drive is alive and well. In keeping with the theme, the cover features cancer cells and a gargoyle. Dufresne (philosophy, Lakehead U.; U. of Toronto) is the editor of two other Freud studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordPreface1Twilight of the Idols: From Freud to Lacan1The Freudian Currency1Beyond the "French Freud" - in America5A Continental Breakfast at L'Hotel Abyss92The Heterogeneous Beyond: An Introduction to the Dead and Dying13In Media Res: Given, Taken, Denied, and Forgotten 'Beyond's14Biographical 'Beyond's27Biological 'Beyond's43Klein and the "Clinical" 'Beyond'65Philosophical 'Beyond's80Derrida and the Deconstructive 'Beyond'1293The Other Beyond: a.k.a. Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego145Becoming Dead147The Hypnotic 'Beyond'166Afterword: How to Be a Freudian; or, The Economics of Not Thinking184Notes187Bibliography207Index223
\ BooknewsInvoking Freud's theory of the life and death instincts as explicated in (1920), the author argues that the death wish was Freud's own defense mechanism against criticism; critiques what he views as the death-obsessed commentators on Freudian psychoanalysis; and claims that the death drive is alive and well. In keeping with the theme, the cover features cancer cells and a gargoyle. Dufresne (philosophy, Lakehead U.; U. of Toronto) is the editor of two other Freud studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
