Knowledge and Its Pretenders

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

Buch, Englisch, 266 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 this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as narcissism, the nature of truth and illusion, and what constitutes knowledge within and outside analytic settings, the chapters take one of Freuds key works and offers an exegesis of that work. With a deep understanding of Freud's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and cultural spheres, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wanting to better understand the continued importance of Freud's enduring significance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, David

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?

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 disorder.