TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smadja,Éric
TI  - Freud and culture /Eric Smadja
T2  - Psychoanalytic ideas and applications series
SN  - 9781781815298
AV  - BF175 .F748 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Karnac
KW  - Freud, Sigmund,
KW  - Psychoanalysis and culture
KW  - Culture
KW  - Freudian Theory
KW  - Sociological Factors
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; COVER --; CONTENTS --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR --; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE Freud's society --; CHAPTER TWO About society, groups, and community --; CHAPTER THREE Freudian culture --; CHAPTER FOUR Ideas and criticisms of sociologists and anthropologists --; CHAPTER FIVE The Freudian notion of Kulturarbeit --; By way of conclusion --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; 2; b
N2  - In this book Eric Smadja explores the representations of society and culture that Freud developed in the course of his work. Distinct from contemporary sociological and anthropological conceptions, they led to his construction of a personal socio-anthropology that was virulently criticised by the social sciences. But what exactly is meant here by 'culture' and 'society'? Do we mean Freud's own Viennese society or Western, 'civilised' society in general? In addition, Freud was interested in historical and 'primitive' societies from the evolutionist perspective of the British anthropologists of his time. This book considers the interrelationship between these different societies and cultures, and raises many questions. What constitutes a culture? What are its essential traits, its functions, its relationships with society, with nature, and with other aspects of 'reality' or of the 'external world'? How did Freud construct the idea of culture? What roles does culture play in the development of the individual, in the construction and functioning of his or her psyche? This book offers some answers and presents the Freudian central notion of Kulturarbeit, which is constructed from a strictly Freudian perspective
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