Publication

1996 - New York University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

68,750 words, Guess

Page Count

275 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivefreudsparanoidqu00farr
  • ISBN-100814726496
  • ISBN-10081472650X
  • ISBN-139780814726495
  • ISBN-139780814726501
and 5 more
  • Goodreads2772076', '2205771
  • LibraryThing1483269
  • Library of Congress Control Number95050156
  • Better World Books9780814726495
  • Open LibraryOL812906M

Classifications

  • DDC150.19/52/092
  • LCCBF109.F74 F37 1996
  • LCCBF109.F74F37 1996

Description

In Freud's Paranoid Quest John Farrell analyzes the personality and thought of Sigmund Freud in order to give insight into modernity's paranoid character and into the true nature of Freudian psychoanalysis. Farrell's Freud is not the path-breaking psychologist he claimed to be, but the fashioner and prisoner of a total system of suspicion. The most gifted of paranoids, he deployed this system as a self-heroizing myth and a compelling historical ideology. Strangest of all, Freud's science borrows the rhetoric of the satiric romance adapted from his great model, Don Quixote. Freud asks all of us to share in the suspicion, victimization, and even the charm of the paranoid romance, to follow the heroic psychoanalyst on his quest in the quixotic territory of the unconscious mind.

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Other Editions

  • Freud's paranoid quest: psychoanalysis and modern suspicionNew York University Press1996-01-01

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