Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture

Marc Notes: Literature, philosophy, film, history, cultural studies, neuroscience, psychotherapy...; Cloth @ $40.0Publisher Marketing: An assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together a group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell and Robert Jay Lifton. Review Citations:

Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 233 (EAN 9780300087451, Paperback)

Library Journal 09/01/2000 pg. 233 (EAN 9780300081169, Hardcover)

Scitech Book News 03/01/2001 pg. 2 (EAN 9780300081169, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Brooks, Peter Peter Brooks is Chester T. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. The author of numerous articles on French and English literature as well as on narrative theory and psychoanalysis, his works include "The Novel of Worldlines" (1969), "The Melodramatic Imagination" (1976), and the widely-praised "Reading for the Plot" (1984), recently reissued. His latest book "Body Work" (1993) deals with the female body in literature, painting, and film as the object of desire. Contributor Bio:  Woloch, Alex Woloch is assistant professor of English at Stanford University.