Straight Male Modern : A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis 9781315670317, 9781138946996

Major psychoanalytic thinkers from Freud to Ricoeur to Lacan considered the Oedipus complex the key to explaining the hu

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Straight Male Modern : A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis
9781315670317, 9781138946996

Until 1912 the association of Jung and Freud was very close, and Jung was regarded as one of the leading practitioners o

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This study is a philosophical critique of the foundations of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. As such, it also takes

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