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Foucault Versus Freud - Jerome C. Wakefield

Foucault Versus Freud

Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality
Buch | Softcover
348 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-76923-3 (ISBN)
CHF 55,80 inkl. MwSt
In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault.

Starting from Foucault's question, "What makes the psychoanalytic theory of incest acceptable to the bourgeois family?", and drawing on Foucault's relatively unexplored published lectures as well as his celebrated History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Wakefield evaluates Foucault's argument that there is a continuity between the two-century medical anti-masturbation crusade and Freud's theory, providing the reader with an accessible introduction to Foucault's conceptual innovations including power/knowledge, the deployment of sexuality, and the use of surveillance and confession as tactics in medicalizing sexuality and reshaping family life.

Rather than allowing the argument to stay at the evidentially uncertain level one often finds in Foucault's writings, Wakefield undertakes close readings of both Freud's "seduction-theory" texts and later Oedipal-period texts to test whether Foucault's provocative arguments find support or disconfirmation. Despite identifying weaknesses in Foucault's position, Wakefield argues that a careful look at Freud's sexual theories through Foucault's theoretical lens changes forever the way one sees Freud's theory—and has the potential to help psychoanalysis move forward in a constructive way.

This book is written to be understandable for those who are not steeped in philosophy or familiar with Foucault's philosophy, offering a lucid introduction to Foucault's ideas and his clash with Freud that will be of interest to clinicians, students, and scholars alike.

Jerome C. Wakefield is university professor, professor of Social Work, affiliate professor of Philosophy, associate faculty in the Center for Bioethics in the School of Global Public Health, and honorary faculty in the Psychoanalytic Association of New York Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, at New York University.

1. Introduction: Foucault Versus Freud 2. The Appeal of the Oedipus Complex 3. The Masturbation Crusade 4. Surveillance, Confession, Medicalization: Foucault on the Masturbation Crusade 5.The Preservation of Victorianism: Freud's Early Theories as Extension of the Masturbation Crusade 6. Foucault on the Ease of Transition from the Masturbation Crusade to the Oedipal Theory 7. The Dangers of Fantasy: Masturbation and Incestuous Desire in the Little Hans Case 8. Foucault's Critique of Freud's Oedipal Theory: Conclusions and Implications

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Psychological Issues
Zusatzinfo 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 670 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-032-76923-8 / 1032769238
ISBN-13 978-1-032-76923-3 / 9781032769233
Zustand Neuware
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