Freud for the Twenty-First Century The Science of Everyday Life /

• Main Author: Samuels, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical psychology.; Psychoanalysis.; Clinical psychology.; Psychology, Applied.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Philosophy of mind.; Critical Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Applied Psychology.; Cultural Theory.; Philosophy of Mind.

"With this nimble volume, Samuels emerges as a peerless Freudian life coach. Without ever abandoning Freud's own belief in the value of science, and engaging with key contemporary advocates of the enlightenment doctrine, he articulates the so desperately needed, poetic wisdom for our times...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Science of Everyday Life
• 2. Science and the Reality Principle
• 3. The Pleasure Principle and the Death Drive
• 4. The Unconscious and Primary Processes
• 5. Transference and Narcissism
• 6. The Resistances to Psychoanalysis and Global Progress
• 7. Progress and Its Discontents.