| Sex on the
Couch
What Freud Still Has to Teach
Us About Sex and Gender
By Richard Boothby
Paperback, 288pages, 22.7 ×
15.2 × 1.7cm
$34.99 |
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At just the
moment when many people are ready to throw Freud on to
the ash-heap of intellectual history, Sex on the
Couch rescues from Freud's theories a fascinating
series of reflections on the nature of sexuality and
gender.
Richard Boothby presents here a fresh and engaging view
of Freud. Sex on the Couch offers new insights
into our concepts of masculinity and femininity, placing
them in relation to Freud's theory of the Life and Death
drives. Richard Boothby also engages feminist critiques
of Freud, putting forward new and specific responses to
questions that have shaped contemporary understanding of
feminism and psychoanalysis. Boothby's Freud, far from
being passé, is in possession of insights that enrich
our understanding of modernity and its distinctive
character.
In a refreshingly readable style, Richard Boothby writes
here not only for the scholarly reader but for the
student and lay reader curious about Freud's theories
and their use in contemporary world.
About the Author
Richard Boothby is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola
College in Baltimore. He is the author of Death and
Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud
and Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology after Lacan,
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