Freud: Conflict and Culture

Title: Freud: Conflict and Culture
Author: Michael S Roth
ISBN: 0679451161
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 273
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The exhibition, which was orginally scheduled for the fall of 1996, was postponed amid a firestorm of controversy. It is now set to open in Washington, D.C., in October 1998 -- and to travel on to New York, Los Angeles, and Europe -- and promises to be one of the most engaging and provocative the Library has ever mounted.

Reflecting the lively and comprehensive spirit of the show, Freud: Conflict and Culture is a gathering of variously challenging, erudite, and amusing essays by scholars, critics, and writers. Among the contributors are Oliver Sacks, on Freud's neurological research, Peter Gay, on psychoanalysis and the historian, and Robert Coles, on psychoanalysis in America. John Forrester examines The Interpretation of Dreams, Art Spiegelman provides an irreverent and hilarious twist on the same, and Peter Kramer considers both the current status of Freudian theory and its possible future.

A fascinating spectrum of viewpoints on one of the most influential figures of the modern age.