Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture

Author(s) : Robert A. Paul

Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture

Book Details

  • Publisher : Bloomsbury
  • Published : 2021
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 232
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97859
  • ISBN 13 : 9781501370038
  • ISBN 10 : 1501370030

Table of Contents


Introduction: The Stream and the Road

Part I - Dross Into Gold: Recuperating Freud's Social Theory
1. Freud's Theory of Society
2. Biology and Culture in Civilization and Its Discontents
3. Yes, the Primal Crime Did Take Place

PART II- Like Rabbits or Like Robots? Sexual versus Non-Sexual Reproduction in the Western Tradition
4. The Genealogy of Civilization
5. Sons or Sonnets?
6. The Pygmalion Complex

PART III - Our Two Track-Minds: A Dual Inheritance Perspective on Some Classic Psychoanalytic Issues
7. Incest Avoidance: Oedipal and Preoedipal, Natural and Cultural
8. Sexuality: Biological Fact or Cultural Construction?
9. Consciousness, Language, and Dual Inheritance

References
Index

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