Freud on the psychology of ordinary mental life / Susan Sugarman.

Author/creator Sugarman, Susan
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
Descriptionxiii, 119 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction to the inquiry -- The pleasure principle -- Meaning and determinism and the search for anomalies -- Conscious and unconscious, repression, and development -- Developmental analysis as investigatory tool studies -- Getting lost in someone else's story : "Creative writers and daydreaming" (1908) -- Why we laugh at something funny : Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905) -- The experience of the "uncanny" : "The 'Uncanny'" (1908) -- The paradox of surprise in the face of certainty : "A disturbance of memory on the Acropolis" (1936) -- What makes choice difficult when it is : a Freud-inspired excursion -- Mourning and mental health -- "On transience" (1916), "Mourning and melancholia" (1917).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 107-112) and index.
LCCN 2009053392
ISBN9781442204034 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1442204036 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781442204058 (electronic)
ISBN1442204052 (electronic)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BF173 .S848 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold