Book contents
- Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
- Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Against death: Freud and the question of death’s psychic presence
- 2 “Most of the time life appears so uncertain to me”: Death as a concern in Freud’s life
- 3 The dream of death: The Interpretation of Dreams
- 4 To dream, perchance to die: A further exploration of The Interpretation of Dreams
- 5 Death and anxiety
- 6 A struggle with the concept of death: “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death”
- 7 Driving death away: Freud’s theory of the death drive
- 8 Death and culture: Death as a central motif in Freud’s cultural and literary analyses
- 9 Avoidance and reduction of death in psychoanalysis
- 10 The post-Freudians in the labyrinth of death
- 11 Lacan
- 12 Attempts at reconciliation
- 13 Sources of the clash: The conflict between analytic ideas and concern with death
- 14 Death in life
- Final thoughts
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
- Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Against death: Freud and the question of death’s psychic presence
- 2 “Most of the time life appears so uncertain to me”: Death as a concern in Freud’s life
- 3 The dream of death: The Interpretation of Dreams
- 4 To dream, perchance to die: A further exploration of The Interpretation of Dreams
- 5 Death and anxiety
- 6 A struggle with the concept of death: “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death”
- 7 Driving death away: Freud’s theory of the death drive
- 8 Death and culture: Death as a central motif in Freud’s cultural and literary analyses
- 9 Avoidance and reduction of death in psychoanalysis
- 10 The post-Freudians in the labyrinth of death
- 11 Lacan
- 12 Attempts at reconciliation
- 13 Sources of the clash: The conflict between analytic ideas and concern with death
- 14 Death in life
- Final thoughts
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death , pp. v - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012