| The Weary Sons of Freud Contributor(s): Clement, Catherine (Author), Ball, Nicole (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1781688850 ISBN-13: 9781781688854 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2015460651 |
| Series: Radical Thinkers |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted with insight and compelled by fury, Catherine Cl ment contrasts the original, inspirational psychoanalytical work of Freud and Lacan to the obsessive imitations of their uninspired followers--the weary sons of Freud. The analyst's once attentive ear has become deaf to the broader questions of therapeutic practice. Clement asks whether the perspective of socialism, brought to this study by a woman who is herself an analysand, can fill the gap. She reflects on her own history, as well as on that of psychoanalysis and the French left, to show what an activist and feminist restoration of the talking cure might look like. |