Knowledge and Its Pretenders

Perspectives on Freud
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-34962-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre. Starting with some of the earliest papers, he situates the evolution of Freud’s concepts in relation to psychoanalysis and more broadly, placing it within the context of culture and the history of ideas.Chapters cover such key topics as narcissism, the nature of truth and illusion, and what constitutes knowledge within and outside analytic settings. Each chapter takes one of Freud's key papers providing both an exegesis of that work and then considering it in the context of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and in culture more broadly.

This is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of ideas, and anyone wanting to better understand the continued importance of Freud’s enduring significance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Freud in our time: psychoanalysis, tragedy, and modernity 2. A new way of listening: Freud’s papers on technique 3. Anna O revisited: a contemporary Kleinian perspective 4. The theory of narcissism in the work of Freud and Klein 5. The world as it is versus the world as I would like it to be: contemporary reflections on Freud’s “Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning” 6. Is truth an illusion? Psychoanalysis and postmodernism 7. Knowledge as fact, knowledge as experience: Freud’s “Constructions in analysis” 8. Freud’s “Analysis terminable and interminable”: disillusion or disillusionment? 9. I Am the Spirit That Negates All: reflections on Freud's death drive

Über Autor(innen)

David Bell, is a training analyst and a former president of the British Psychoanalytic Society. He spent twenty-five years as a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust where he founded and led a new service for patients with long standing serious psychological disorders.