Todd Dufresne
Returns of the French Freud: Freud, Lacan and Beyond
This study examines the complex relationships between Freudian and Lacanian theory and philosophy, feminism, anthropology, communications theory, deconstruction, Foucauldian genealogy and medical... (more)
Freud under analysis: history, theory, practice: Essays in honor of Paul Roazen
This volume consists of 18 contributions from prominent figures in psychoanalysis. Over five sections, they examine the social, historical, and intellectual context within which Freud lived and... (more)
Tales from the Freudian crypt: The death drive in text and context
Writing from the perspective of intellectual history, this work traces the impact that Freud's essay "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" has had on 20th- century thought. (more)
Killing Freud: Twentieth Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis
Killing Freud takes the reader on a journey through the 20th century, tracing the work and influence of one of its greatest icons, Sigmund Freud. A devastating critique, Killing Freud ranges across... (more)
Against Freud: Critics Talk Back
Everyone agrees that Sigmund Freud has had a profound impact on Western life. But even today few people know much about his life and work beyond the legends that Freud and his adherents created,... (more)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud's most philosophical and speculative work, exploring profound questions of life and death, pleasure and pain. In it Freud introduces the fundamental concepts of... (more)
The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, declared that religion is a universal obsessional neurosis in his famous work of 1927, The Future of an Illusion. This work provoked immediate... (more)
The Late Sigmund Freud: Or, the Last Word on Psychoanalysis, Society, and All the Riddles of Life
Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society: The Future of an Illusion andCivilization and its Discontents. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely... (more)