Copernicus, Darwin and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science

Copernicus, Darwin and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science Review

Using Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism as examples of scientific traditions, Copernicus, Darwin and Freud takes a philosophical look at these three revolutions in thought to illustrate the connections between science and philosophy.

• Shows how these revolutions in thought lead to philosophical consequences
• Provides extended case studies of Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism
• Integrates the history of science and the philosophy of science like no other text
• Covers both the philosophy of natural and social science in one volume

Internal Objects Revisited (Monograph Series of the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London Adn the Anna Freud Centre)

Internal Objects Revisited (Monograph Series of the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London Adn the Anna Freud Centre) Review

The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psycho-analytic situation.

Freud and the Non-European

Freud and the Non-European Review

Banned by the Freud Institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture became Edward Said's final book.

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freuds Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in Freud's work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud's assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel's relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.

On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions

On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions Review

Through a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how circumcision-the fetishized signifier of Jewish difference and source of knowledge about Jewish identity-is central to Freud's construction of psychoanalysis.Jay Geller depicts Freud as an ordinary Viennese Jew making extraordinary attempts to mitigate the trauma of everyday antisemitism. He situates Freud at the nexus of antisemitic, misogynistic, colonialist, and homophobic discourses, both scientific and popular. These held in place the double bind of post-Emancipation and pre-Shoah Viennese Jewish life: the demand for complete assimilation into the dominant culture, accompanied by the assumption that Jews were constitutionally incapable of eliminating their difference. Incarnate in the figure of the circumcised (male) Jew, this difference haunted the Central European cultural imaginationand helped create, maintain, and confirm Central European identities and hierarchies.Exploring overlapping layers of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in identity construction, theories of trauma, fetishism, and writing, Geller looks at Freud's representations of the Jewish body-especially circumcised penises and their displacements onto noses. He shows how Freud reinscribed the virile masculine norm and the at once hypervirile and effeminate Jewish other into the discourse of psychoanalysis.