Freud's Memory: Psychoanalysis, Mourning and the Foreign Body

by R. White

Overview

Rob White reconsiders Freud's controversial theory of inherited memory, referring it both to Anglo-American commentary and post-structuralist work on psychoanalysis. White proposes that this theory is evidence of an underlying haunted retrospection in Freudian theorizing, which time and again discovers that meaning has been lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349280896
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Series:	Language, Discourse, Society
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	183
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROB WHITE is Editor of Film Quarterly and an independent researcher. He has published essays on psychoanalytic theory in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Journal of European Studies and Oxford Literary Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Psychoanalytic Labyrinth Figures of Freudian Theory Others' Memories Mourning as Ethics and Argument Across Limits The Foreign Bodies of Psychoanalysis Conclusion: Freud's Secret Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'White exposes the complexity and "unfinishability" of Freud's project. His scrupulously argued and lucidly written book discusses Freud without the aid of psychoanalytic language. Hence it refreshingly discloses, with great astuteness and sensitivity, just how strange a writer and thinker Freud is. It can be enthusiastically recommended.' Journal of European Studies

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