Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality

Author(s) : Jerome C. Wakefield

Foucault Versus Freud: Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 362
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97703
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032769233
  • ISBN 10 : 1032769238

Table of Contents


1. Introduction: Foucault Versus Freud
2. The Appeal of the Oedipus Complex
3. The Masturbation Crusade
4. Surveillance, Confession, Medicalization: Foucault on the Masturbation Crusade
5. The Preservation of Victorianism: Freud's Early Theories as Extension of the Masturbation Crusade
6. Foucault on the Ease of Transition from the Masturbation Crusade to the Oedipal Theory
7. The Dangers of Fantasy: Masturbation and Incestuous Desire in the Little Hans Case
8. Foucault's Critique of Freud's Oedipal Theory: Conclusions and Implications

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