How to Read Freud

by Josh Cohen

In this engaging introduction, Josh Cohen argues that Freud shows above all that any thought, word or action, however apparently trivial, can invite close reading. Indeed, it may be just this insight that provokes so much opposition to psychoanalysis.

By reading short extracts from across Freud's work, addressing the neuroses, the unconscious, words, death and (of course) sex, How to Read Freud brings out the paradoxical core of psychoanalytic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862077630
• ISBN13: 9781862077638
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"